Re: Newest cygwin snapshot has /proc/<pid>/cmdline

["Sergey Okhapkin" <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>]

It's just s speculation. Did you run a long running make with a low priority
and top with a normal priority?

Sergey Okhapkin
Somerset, NJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-developers@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: Newest cygwin snapshot has /proc/<pid>/cmdline


> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 05:25:13PM -0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> >Try to start "nice make" in one console and "top" in another one.
Everything
> >freezes and "top" consumes all the CPU time:-( I think the problem is in
the
> >following loop in _pinfo::commune_send():
> >
> >
> >  while ((isalive = alive ()))
> >    if (myself->hello_pid <= 0)
> >      break;
> >    else
> >      Sleep (0);
> >
> >Changing Sleep(0) to Sleep(10) helps a little bit, but that's not a
> >solution...
>
> No it's not a solution.  And, as surprising as it may sound, I can't
> duplicate this.  I.e., "works fine for me".
>
> Are you saying that you actually caught a process in this loop or is
> this sheer speculation?
>
> cgf