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 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:07:57 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) From: Simon Barnes Subject: Re: Cygwin processes getting stuck on max CPU usage; XP SP2 problem? X-X-Sender: barnes@hydra.gatwick.eur.slb.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-AntiVirus: Sophos nammta01 Some of my colleagues and I are seeing this without using Process Explorer. No doubt some other automated process is triggering it, but we don't know which. Is there anything I can do to help work towards a fix? It's moderately inconvenient having to restart rxvt or bash every few hours. Simon > If you have symbols installed and you list the threads for the hung > Cygwin process you'll see the stuck one is in a loop in > ntdll.dll!RtlConvertUiListToApiList, as well as a corresponding thread > in csrss.exe (CSRSRV.dll!ValidateMessageString) for each. The CPU usage > seems to be split equally between them all. > > So, it's definitely an interaction between Cygwin and Process Explorer's > grubby little fingers... however no one seems to be interestd in fixing > it so for the time being the solution seems to be "Don't accidently > enable the 'DLLs View' of a cygwin process in ProcExp." -- 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/