From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19951 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2008 13:01:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 19943 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jun 2008 13:01:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from flexo.grapevine.net.au (HELO flexo.grapevine.net.au) (203.129.32.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:00:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flexo.grapevine.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1E9580E58; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:00:32 +1000 (EST) Received: from flexo.grapevine.net.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flexo.grapevine.net.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7RAmBKGa+oFb; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:00:32 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp-187.40.129.203.grapevine.net.au [203.129.40.187]) by flexo.grapevine.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4892580E57; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:00:31 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <486635EE.2050003@homemail.com.au> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:01:00 -0000 From: Ross Johnson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nickfox CC: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Problem with 100% CPU and fan running References: <18168532.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <18168532.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 Hello Nick, Any reason to suspect the pthreads-win32 library especially? Generally it's designed not to cause continuous CPU load (with one exception on SMP machines being pthread_spin_lock, but which is intended only for very short duration locks). Have you reported this to the VRP developers? Regards. Ross nickfox wrote: > I'm running a demo I found on sourceforge: > > http://vrp.sourceforge.net/ > > and when I first start up the demo, the fan on my XP service pack 3 machine > starts running. When I run the app, the CPU pegs to 100%. The demo is using > pthreads. > > Is there a way to keep this from happening? > > thanks > Nick >