[Wine] explorer.exe 100% CPU, again

[Flying]

--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/02/07, Flying <wu_yinghui at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > >From 0.9.26 all the way to the latest 0.9.30,
> I've been seeing this
> > problem on my system (Linux flying
> 2.6.17-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Feb 1
> > 19:52:28 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux; Ubuntu Edgy
> installed, but running KDE
> > currently).
> > The explorer.exe process is always running with
> close to 100% kernel time.
> 
> Tangentially, I get this all the time with Picasa on
> Linux. That's
> using Picasa's own version of Wine, not the main
> copy, but I usually
> have to kill -9 the explorer.exe process to keep my
> laptop CPU from
> overheating ...

I got this problem from all applications that starts
explorer.exe. Most of the time, I have to kill the
explorer process too in order to get some rest to my
CPU.

> (Long story, crap ACPI DSDT code from HPaq for my
> Compaq laptop. I
> have a fix but it's a risky PITA to implement. My
> usual workaround is
> running everything at nice 10, and I have no idea
> why that works. But
> anyway.)

I'm not sure this is related to my problem. I'm using
a standard desktop PC with P4 2.6, MSI m/b.

Cheers,

Freddie

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