Answering my own question - I tried the Process browser and tried suspending a 
few processes and then found a debug window that when closed fixed the problem.


Tim

> On 7 Sep 2017, at 19:46, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> 
> Hi there - I’ve been running in a 6.1 64bit image for a few days - doing a 
> few experiments at lunch times, debugging things etc. I have had a few 
> infinite loops that I’ve had to Cmd-. Out of  and clean up lots of windows 
> (whoever came up with the close all windows to right is a star!).
> 
> Anyway, I just noticed that now when I drag windows around in the world - 
> they leave lots of window trails around. Redrawing the screen cleans it up - 
> but I’m wondering what causes this?
> 
> I tried running the the TimeProfiler and 91% of the time when dragging a 
> window around is in BlockClosure>>newProcess but this doesn’t seem out of 
> what with another image that doesn’t exhibit this behaviour?
> 
> Is there something that I should do to clean up? I wondered if I might find 
> some stuck process in the background that was gobbling cpu - but I don’t 
> really see that (but is there an easy way to check?).
> 
> Tim


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