Created attachment 32015 [details] JUnit Task I have a JUnit test case that prints a considerable amount of text to standard err/out (about 6 MB worth of logging). If the the junit task is configured with showoutput="true", the test takes much longer (about 14x longer) to run on Windows only (the flag does not seem to significantly affect the speed of the test on our OSX or Linux nodes). Interestingly, setting printsummary="withOutAndErr" and showoutput="false" does not seem to slow the test down even though it's outputting about the same amount of text, so I don't think it's a problem with console or disk IO speeds. I've attached what my JUnit task looks like (note that it uses the fork option). This is the performance I'm seeing on my Windows 7 machine: With printsummary="withOutAndErr" showoutput="false": BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 minute 3 seconds With printsummary="yes" showoutput="true": BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 14 minutes 30 seconds