RE: cygwin 1.5.20-1, spinning pdksh, 100% CPU

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Ernie Coskrey wrote:

> > Quite possibly.  There were changes to signal handling since 1.5.20,
> > IIRC. Unless I'm mistaken, there's even a patch for a race condition
> > in process handling code (though it's not in 1.5.24, I think).
>
> I just want to make sure I understand this - are you talking about a
> change that has been made since 1.5.24-2 was released, which is in the
> snapshot view now?  Or did you mean a fix that was made sometime between
> 1.5.20-1 and 1.5.24-2.

I meant the former, but I don't know if these changes have actually fixed
your problem.

> > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated!
> > >
> > > Posting a sequence of steps that reliably reproduces the problem for
> > > you would be great (but not necessarily easy).
>
> We've seen the issue happen with the following scripts.  Run a few
> instances of "tst.sh".  Occasionally, one will become hung - if you
> terminate the other tst.sh with Ctrl-C, you'll see that there's a
> subtest.sh shell that is using up all the CPU.
>
> First - generate "tstfile" by running
> ls -l /bin > tstfile
>
> tst.sh
> ======
> while true
> do
>         for ltr in a b c d e f g
>         do
>                 out=`./subtest.sh $ltr`
>                 echo Found $out
>                 date
>         done
> done
>
> subtest.sh
> ==========
> for i in `seq 1 100`
> do
>         f=`awk '{if(NR == i)print}' i=$i tstfile`
>         m=`/bin/echo $f | grep $1`
>         if [ ! -z "$m" ]
>         then
>                 echo $i: $m
>         fi
> done

I can't seem to reproduce this on my Core Duo Thinkpad with 2G RAM and
WinXP Pro after 20 minutes or so.

Any particulars about the machines on which this happens?  Are they
multi-core?  I don't recall seeing a cygcheck output from an affected
machine...
	Igor
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