Re: bash often consume a cpu.

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 04:58:24PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:15:06 -0500
>>>> Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> said:
>
>> I've made a few more changes.  Please try the next snapshot.
>
>I tried your fixes through `cvs update'. Unfortunately, the
>fixes make nothing about the problem, too. I replaced the strace
>log with one which may be more helpful for your debugging.
>
>In the strace log, I executed the bash command without any
>environment variables nor /etc/{termcap,passwd,group}, and
>simply typed `a\n' three times. The bash didn't consume a cpu
>until two times. After I typed three times, it began to do so.
>
>Anyway, my NT box has two CPU. Multi-processor systems hit
>problems about race conditions more often than uni-processor
>ones.

I do all of my debugging on an NT with two CPUs and I'm not seeing
this.

Regardless, I think I see the problem.  When things get into this
state, could you try hitting a "CTRL-C" at the bash prompt and see
if the CPU utilization goes back down?

-chris