Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/29/11:34:28
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Steve B wrote:
>
>> When I am playing the freely available standalone version of Return
>> to Castle Wolfenstein called Enemy Territory and I have various
>> cygwin programs such as apache's httpd, tail.exe, cygrunsrv.exe,
>> bash.exe, or whatnot running, ET will lock up and when I bring up
>> the task manager, seemingly random cygwin processes will be hogging
>> the CPU until I kill it.
>
> If you happen to be using Process Explorer from sysinternals.com then
> that's the culprit. If you have the "modules" display enabled and
> happen to click on or otherwise display info about a cygwin process,
> the result is a 100% hang until you kill the cygwin process.
There has been talk of late about this, usually with csrss (a non Cygwin
process) going wild as well as inetd, cron and other Cygwin processes.
I, at times, use Procexp, other times not use it and still see
occasionally this problem happening. It hogs the CPU but not that much
(typically the processes are taking up 30 or so percent of the CPU but 2
or 3 of them (csrss and inetd and cron - 30 + 30 + 30 tends to get to
~100%)). This is observed with regular TaskManager not Procexp however
this condition may have been tripped earlier as often my CPU is very
busy anyway. So it might be that I had Procexp running and not
necessarily looking at the "modules" display or anything rather it is
iconified but a cygwin process, such as cron, became busy and thus got
Procexp's attention possibly tripping the problem.
In any event what version of Procexp do you use and suspect is causing
this problem. I have 5.20 running at home and I forget which version is
running at work but I know it's a newer version.
When starting Procexp to check the version I noticed that he problem has
occurred again. csrss is taking ~20% and cron ~12%. The 2 inetd's are
taking ~10%. Working around this usually just involves a net stop of
cron/inetd and restarting it. OK that worked. Restarting Procexp and
wham! Same problem! Interesting.
There is no modules view in 5.20 BTW. There is only View: DLLs and
Handles. Either setting causes this problem in Cygwin.
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