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 Message-ID: <415AA557.14D51EFE@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 05:06:47 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc) References: <20040929115032.98115.qmail@web52310.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Steve B wrote: > > When I am playing the freely available standalone > version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein called Enemy > Territory and I have various cygwin programs such as > apache's httpd, tail.exe, cygrunsrv.exe, bash.exe, or > whatnot running, ET will lock up and when I bring up > the task manager, seemingly random cygwin processes > will be hogging the CPU until I kill it. If you happen to be using Process Explorer from sysinternals.com then that's the culprit. If you have the "modules" display enabled and happen to click on or otherwise display info about a cygwin process, the result is a 100% hang until you kill the cygwin process. Brian -- 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/