Please start a new thread rather than replying to an old one for new issues.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Steven Hartland wrote: > General question has anyone else seen processes running under > cygwin using 100% CPU when the shouldn't. > The background is cygwin 1.5.5 I have a perl script which > monitors process cpu levels. It does this using serveral system > calls to other utils, ps, vmstat and pslist ( win32 app from > sysinternals ). The script samples every minute recording the > results. > Now 99% of the time all is fine but sometime when actually > running ( every minute ) it and the utils it spawns most notablly > pslist use 100% cpu. So much so that if you have the desktop > open it will freeze for the few seconds that its sampling for. > Its very strange once its doing it it will continue to do so for each > sample until restarted. The only pattern I can see so far is that > it tends to happen when said script is started from sub shell > script via a ssh -l user "restart.sh" > > Anyone seen anything similar? Alternatively what do people > think is the best approch to find the issue? On FreeBSD truss > would be my first port of call. > On Cygwin, I would suggest "man strace". > Thanks for that Brian I was avoiding 1.5.6 due to the amount of issues > I've seen flying around with it. Looks like they have settled with -1 so > I will try upgrading 1 machine and see if I can reproduce. Cheers. > That is/was probably a good idea, but please test with the latest snapshot. See http://cygwin.com/snapshots for details. Thanks. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- 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/
