RE: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 June 2006 02:11, Science Guy wrote: I got cygwin working once again on my problem machine. (Hooray!) The problem was that the snapshot tar file, cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2, had cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin but failed to replace the old cygwin1.dll in /bin. I copied over the new

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:57:54PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 20 June 2006 02:11, Science Guy wrote: I got cygwin working once again on my problem machine. (Hooray!) The problem was that the snapshot tar file, cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2, had cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin but failed to replace

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-20 Thread Science Guy
From message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00534.html: Dave, I think you missed this: sciguy wrote: I am networked to a Linux machine, so I moved the tar file cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2 over to the Linux machine, created a dummy cygwin directory to hold the file, and un-tarred it

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-20 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Science Guy wrote: From message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00534.html: Dave, I think you missed this: sciguy wrote: I am networked to a Linux machine, so I moved the tar file cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2 over to the Linux machine, created a dummy cygwin

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-19 Thread sciguy
and directory structure over the cygwin directory of the affected Windows PC. All the files seemed to copy over just fine. Then I rebooted the PC and tried bringing up a bash window under cygwin. Alas, after a few minutes, the bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU problem popped up as usual. Any other

RE: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-19 Thread Dave Korn
On 19 June 2006 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. To answer Brett's question: Yes, I am running virus and spyware protection software. I run Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, Program version 8.0.1.501 and scan engine 4.1.0.22. I run this at least once a week and I keep the virus

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:28:04PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 19 June 2006 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. To answer Brett's question: Yes, I am running virus and spyware protection software. I run Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, Program version 8.0.1.501 and scan engine

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-19 Thread sciguy
Hey, my message, which I had been trying to post since early Saturday morning, finally made it through. That was a struggle ... To answer some issues that have come up since then, Linda Walsh asked about procexp (Process Explorer). Since I never heard of this program, I assume I am not using

RE: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-19 Thread Charli Li
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 12:32 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05

RE: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-19 Thread Dave Korn
On 19 June 2006 18:44, Charli Li wrote: The reason for the Z-Shell, if Dave, cgf, or Corinna is asking, is because bash may be a little buggy. The only problem that I know of (yours) is reported against bash (perhaps anybody would like to reference more bash problems???), and a problem has

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-19 Thread Science Guy
I got cygwin working once again on my problem machine. (Hooray!) The problem was that the snapshot tar file, cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2, had cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin but failed to replace the old cygwin1.dll in /bin. I copied over the new cygwin1.dll into /bin, and things are working nicely

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Brian Dessent wrote: Science Guy wrote: This problem has been noted before by someone else, http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg37532.html but I followed the threads and can find no resolution. When I fire-up a cygwin bash window, everything is fine for a few minutes.

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Linda Walsh wrote: I didn't see Science Guy mention procexp? Um, hey, S.G., are you using Process Explorer? There are probably other programs that use the same technique and cause the same effect, like windows update. I remember the ProcExp bug, but it only happened when I tried to

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:18:13PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: I didn't see Science Guy mention procexp? Um, hey, S.G., are you using Process Explorer? There are probably other programs that use the same technique and cause the same effect, like windows update. I remember the

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-16 Thread Science Guy
Thanks for the suggestion, Brian. Unfortunately, it did not help the problem at all. I am not 100% sure what you meant by try a snapshot, but I am guessing that you meant simply to reinstall cygwin. So I did that, again. Last night I renamed the old cygwin directory from C:\cygwin to

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Science Guy on 6/16/2006 6:55 AM: Thanks for the suggestion, Brian. Unfortunately, it did not help the problem at all. I am not 100% sure what you meant by try a snapshot, but I am guessing that you meant simply to reinstall

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-16 Thread Brett Serkez
snip When I fire-up a cygwin bash window, everything is fine for a few minutes. Then the CPU utilization on my system suddenly jumps to 100%. Bash is typically grabbing about 80% of the CPU, with almost all the rest grabbed by Are you running any virus or spyware protection software? Brett

bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-15 Thread Science Guy
This problem has been noted before by someone else, http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg37532.html but I followed the threads and can find no resolution. When I fire-up a cygwin bash window, everything is fine for a few minutes. Then the CPU utilization on my system suddenly jumps

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

2006-06-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Science Guy wrote: This problem has been noted before by someone else, http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg37532.html but I followed the threads and can find no resolution. The problem is caused by sysinternals' process explorer injecting its own threads into other