[Wine] explorer.exe 100% kernel time?

Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes alex at thehandofagony.com
Tue Dec 12 08:22:53 CST 2006


Tirsdag 12 desember 2006 14:25, skrev Flying:
> > From: "L. Rahyen" <research at science.su>
> > Subject: Re: [Wine] explorer.exe 100% kernel time?
> >
> > On Monday December 11 2006 13:04, Flying wrote:
> >> System: Ubuntu Edgy (fresh installation)
> >> Wine: 0.9.26~winehq0~ubuntu~6.10-1
> >> Hardware: P4 2.60 + 1 GB RAM
> >>
> >> Problem:
> >> 	Whenever I run an Windows application using Wine (e.g., winecfg,
> >> utorrent), there is an instance of explorer.exe started in the
> >> background. I'm fine with the additional process were it not for the
> >> fact that it occupies 100% CPU time (all are kernel time) on my system.
> >> Since my CPU has HT enabled, that basically means 50% of my CPU power is
> >> gone just by this explorer.exe instance.
> >>
> >> Question:
> >> 	Has anyone met similar situation before? Is there any known workaround
> >> to this problem?
> >
> > 	This isn't normal and isn't typical. There are something wrong with your
> > Wine package or your system configuration. You can try to download source
> > code from winehq.org:
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-0.9.27.tar.bz2 . Then
> > unpack, cd to directory with Wine source code and try to compile it by
> > executing (if you have 64-bit system):
>
> Thanks for your information regarding the new Wine release, Rahyen. I've
> just graded my Wine to 0.9.27 via dpkg update. (Sorry, but I was just
> lazy to build it from source, since the 0.9.27~winehq0~ubuntu~6.10-1
> package was out, I just used it.)
>
> But it seems that the explorer.exe problem still persists--the process
> still occupies 100% CPU time on one of one of my two Hyperthreading
> threads. If I kill this instance of explorer.exe, the trayicon for
> uTorrent is gone--thus I can no longer access uTorrent window if it was
> minimized to tray.
>
> My conclusion for now is, upgrading Wine didn't seem to help me solve
> this problem. Any other clue?

I don't think he meant upgrading Wine, he meant compiling Wine from source.


Regards,

Alexander N. Sørnes

>
> Thanks again for your quick reply!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Freddie



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