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On 9/27/2019 11:09 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 9/27/2019 10:27 AM, Vanda Vodkamilkevich wrote:
>> Hi,
>> this may probably be not fully related but I see from time to time a
>> strange behavior of ssh-agent (running in the background and initially
>> started by keychain launched in .bashrc) : the agent is running wild (25%
>> of cpu and never responding). It seems to occur (not systematically) when
>> network is disconnected and reconnected (this is on a laptop often removed
>> from the docking system). Do you have any idea how to diagnose the issue
>> more precisely?
> Sorry, but I'm not an expert on ssh-agent.  Everything I said above is based on
> doing an internet search and looking briefly at the ssh-agent source code.
>
> My only suggestion would be to attach gdb to the process when it starts running
> wild and see if you can figure out why it's inf-looping.  If you don't know how
> to do this, someone who does know would have to be able to reproduce the problem.
I am not an ssh-agent expert either, but I can report that I have also 
observed this behavior on cygwin. I do not know how to reproduce it.

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