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Re: Process Explorer (was: startx hanging - startup problem located)
- From: "martouf ." <martouf5 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:20:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: Process Explorer (was: startx hanging - startup problem located)
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: "martouf ." <martouf5 at gmail dot com>
"Brian Dessent" wrote:
> Specifically, if you click on the Threads tab of the Properties page of a process,
> ProcExp attaches its own thread to the process and this causes the Cygwin
> process to consume 100% cpu.
yes, bringing up the Threads tab on processes like 'xterm' and 'sh'
causes a new thread "ntdll.dll!RtlConvertUiListToApiList+0xNNN" to be
created. It is simple to remedy this by killing the thread. Having
done so, CPU usage returns to normal and the Cygwin process becomes
responsive again.