Folks, I apologise - my first message, and I missed out some information. Included in the list of suspect processes eating up the CPU is xemacs-21.4.13.exe. I frequently use subversion (psvn.el) from within xemacs, which presumably spawns bash too. Perhaps that's significant?
Thanks again, Graham > Hi, > > I believe this is an old problem, but I'm now experiencing it with a > recent version of Cygwin. I haven't been able to determine what > triggers this, but after what seems like a few minutes working with > bash, I find that my CPU is at 100%, and that task manager identifies > the culprits as csrss.exe and each instance of bash.exe. Killing each > copy of bash restores the CPU to its typical workload. I'm using > version 1.5.7 of the cygwnin DLL, and Windows XP Pro > SP1. Unfortunately I can't pinpoint when this started, and so identify > what changed on the machine. I did set "tty" in the CYGWIN variable, > but have since removed that setting. > > I've searched the mailing lists, but only found a tantalising > suggestion that this would be fixed back in 1.1.1: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-04/msg00522.html > > Google found a couple of articles, but no fix. Does anyone know what > is the cause of this? > > I've attached the suggested cygcheck output to this message. > > Thanks very much! > Graham -- 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/