[texworks] CPU resources

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 6 February 2011 Paul A Norman wrote:

 > Hi,
 > 
 > Still had this happening with Tw from time to time - I have no idea
 > what condition causes it - is there anything I can look up - a log or
 > anything?
 > 
 > After you quit Tw - the laptop fan still running hot, and CPU usage high.
 > 
 > Tw has disappeared from view - looks like it has shut down.
 > 
 > Tw does not show in Task Manager / Applications list, but does  in
 > Task Manager / Processes - looking like it is utilising almost all of
 > half a duel core processor..
 > 
 > Has to be explicitly killed or it looks like it will hang around until
 > the machine is rebooted or shut down, otherwise when this happens, it
 > never seems to disappear from Task Manager / Processes by its self.

Maybe it helps if you trace system calls in order to find out what the
process is doing.  You could try the Process Monitor from:

   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals

Regards,
  Reinhard

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