Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/23/11:30:56
Folks, I apologise - my first message, and I missed out some
information. Included in the list of suspect processes eating up the
CPU is xemacs-21.4.13.exe. I frequently use subversion (psvn.el) from
within xemacs, which presumably spawns bash too. Perhaps that's
significant?
Thanks again,
Graham
> Hi,
>
> I believe this is an old problem, but I'm now experiencing it with a
> recent version of Cygwin. I haven't been able to determine what
> triggers this, but after what seems like a few minutes working with
> bash, I find that my CPU is at 100%, and that task manager identifies
> the culprits as csrss.exe and each instance of bash.exe. Killing each
> copy of bash restores the CPU to its typical workload. I'm using
> version 1.5.7 of the cygwnin DLL, and Windows XP Pro
> SP1. Unfortunately I can't pinpoint when this started, and so identify
> what changed on the machine. I did set "tty" in the CYGWIN variable,
> but have since removed that setting.
>
> I've searched the mailing lists, but only found a tantalising
> suggestion that this would be fixed back in 1.1.1:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-04/msg00522.html
>
> Google found a couple of articles, but no fix. Does anyone know what
> is the cause of this?
>
> I've attached the suggested cygcheck output to this message.
>
> Thanks very much!
> Graham
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