I believe I have found a case where Apache (or some httpd children) steal all processor time:
Here are what appear to be the conditions: 1. Have directories (such as for log files) owned by SYSTEM.None 2. Start Apache from Windows Services as LocalSystem 3. as some user other than SYSTEM ... $apachectrl restart I think that should reproduce the problem. Be aware that it may take some time to get your system back again by killing the runaway httpd processes through the Windoz task manager. Now I've several dir's for log files (VHosts) so I haven't bothered to actually verify that chown'ing these dir's to something else makes this problem disappear. But I think this is a pretty good WAG as to how to reproduce this problem. If not, let me know and I can try to provide more info as necessary. Bill --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.518 / Virus Database: 316 - Release Date: 9/11/2003 -- 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/