Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:40:59 -0400
To: "Cygwin (E-mail)" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: processor high use in cygwin 1.1.4 or bash
Message-ID: <20000811114059.F19565@cygnus.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: "Cygwin (E-mail)" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
References: <C9A8E1D07093D111B76A0000F8C9918A042785D1 AT zrtpd003 DOT us DOT nortel DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i
In-Reply-To: <C9A8E1D07093D111B76A0000F8C9918A042785D1@zrtpd003.us.nortel.com>; from cbjones@nortelnetworks.com on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 07:19:57AM -0400

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 07:19:57AM -0400, Christopher Jones wrote:
>I've noticed that when I run a Windows application via bash in the
>background (ie putty &) that once the program exits csrss.exe and bash.exe
>each consume roughly 50% of the processor according to task manager until I
>press the return key in the bash window and get the "[1] Done
>putty" message.
>
>However, not to let anyone just blow this off as a Windows app problem, the
>same thing happens when I run "gdb &" and exit gdb but do not press return
>or do something else in the bash window... bash and csrss do the same thing
>again, together consuming all of the available processor.

It looks like any process which exits in the background causes the same
behavior.  It doesn't seem to be a problem in the CVS sources but I certainly
haven't done anything to either cause or fix this.  Weird.

cgf

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com