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: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:19:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Andrew DeFaria cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20040930210025.87264.qmail@web52304.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Steve B wrote: > > [snip] > > Another thing I noticed, after reading Andrew DeFaria post, was that > > csrss.exe would be using 25% of the CPU while the cygwin processes would hog > > about %75 of the CPU. I'm not sure what csrss.exe is, > > http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/csrss/ > > csrss.exe is the main executable for the Microsoft Client/Server > Runtime Server Subsystem. This process manages most graphical > commands in Windows. This program is important for the stable and > secure running of your computer and should not be terminated. > > > except that I cannot kill it (Access Denied, even as Administrator). > > That's what Process Explorer is for! It can kill things that the Task Manager > won't let you. Unfortunately killing some things, like this, is very > determental to your system (i.e. you reboot! IIRC). FWIW, Cygwin's "/bin/kill -f" should work too. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/