[Wine] Re: Wineserver causing heavy CPU load

Bad2theBone wineforum-user at winehq.org
Thu May 1 19:56:30 CDT 2008


Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Bad2theBone 
> 
> I've seen that, too.  If you use strace -p on it, what is it doing?
> Here's my report:
> http://winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2008-April/064999.html
> 
> It appears to do the same. I had installed IEs4Linux which apparently installs it's own copy of wine. I also have the system monitor applet on my top bar (gnome) and as soon as IE6 starts sysmon shows CPU time at 100%. My strace -p looked similar to yours but much longer. I also noticed that all processes remained active even though I closed IE. Doing a ps -ef shows the below statuses:
> 
> scott     7037     1  0 20:39 ?        00:00:00 bash /home/scott/bin/ie6
> scott     7038  7037 25 20:39 ?        00:00:40 /home/scott/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE                              
> scott     7039  7037  0 20:39 ?        00:00:00 bash /home/scott/bin/ie6
> scott     7042     1 53 20:39 ?        00:01:25 /usr/lib/../bin/wineserver
> scott     7044     1  0 20:39 ?        00:00:00 C:\windows\system32\wineboot.exe --init                                                            
> scott     7045  7044  0 20:39 ?        00:00:00 C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe MountMgr                                                            
> scott     7049     1  0 20:39 ?        00:00:00 C:\windows\system32\explorer.exe /desktop
> 
> 
> AFAIK, it doesn't start at boot time; not sure what you're talking about.
> It can't, since it's a per-user daemon.
> - Dan


When I installed wine I found that it created a process damon in system services gui that was checked and was running. I did not actually check to see if it had setup to restart on reboot. I believe that in the GUI if the service is cheacked it will be auto started on boot.







More information about the wine-users mailing list