On 2009-03-04 19:16Z, Paul Cantalupo wrote: > > I'm running cygwin 1.5.25 on XP and I run Office 2003. Whenever > Microsoft word is open, my cygwin terminal is very slow. This problem > is specific to Word since having Excel open causes no problems. Has > anybody seen this?
I would guess 'word' is running a background thread for something like spell checking. I tried it just now, and saw a temporary slowdown on the order of twenty-five percent for 'time ls' run in the foreground, when I have 'word' open with spell checking enabled. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
