Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040323123744.03c0a440@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:40:48 -0500 To: Graham Clark , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: 1.5.7: csrss and bash consuming 100% of CPU In-Reply-To: <16480.25270.602805.716949@chaos.crhc.uiuc.edu> References: <16480.25270.602805.716949@chaos.crhc.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:15 AM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >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. Please upgrade to 1.5.9 and/or the latest snapshot to see if either help. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/