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Xplorer uses all CPU runtime

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Hi!

Since a view days I experience a strange thing:
sometimes, when visiting a folder, all of a sudden Xplorer eats all the cpu runtime it can get. I cannot really say why.
The only assumption I have is that it has to do with the preview functionality. It always happenend after I double-clicked a PDF.
Do you know of some similiar incidents?

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not for PDF... does it happens for all pdfs or only some? Try turning off the quickviewer, etc, see this page for general ideas required for examining possible bugs
www.zabkat.com/x2cs_bug.htm
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Yes, indeed. It happened with me (either 19 or 20- not sure, but during this week, definitely).

At the time, this was the setting:

QV -OFF
tree pane-ON,
Tree auto-sync with folder pane- ON.
Details view; Name+size+Modified date columns
Both panes had multiple tabs, all on local PC.
(This is a stand-alone PC not connected in a LAN.)

I may have been reading a pdf file with Adobe Acrobat at that time- not sure now.

Now the behavior:
All of a sudden, the HDD spinning noise went up (something like revved up turbines of an aircraft when begins the run for lift-off).

I checked the activity with Process Explorer. x2 was taking up near-100% CPU. I looked at the handles section: In the "Files" list, a lot of folders were appearing and disappearing rapidly(but the total number of paths in the list remained about 10 at all times).

I could not make anything of this. When it did not stop for a few seconds, Then I had to kill x2 from Process Explorer.

When I restarted, x2 started normally.

I have never seen this problem before and after that.

I have seen some crashes though, where x2 leaves silently and suddenly; leaving no trace behind. It is able to start again on the same set of folders.
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I saw it once again today. Usually,  I start x2 immediately after turning on the PC.

This time I had started KMPlayer and FireFox 3.0.4 before starting x2.
The same even happened (but CPU goes above 90%, but not 100%).
Again, it opens and closes different paths rapidly (as seen in "Files" list of Process Explorer).

I closed it forcibly with process explorer.

The crash report had these details:

szModName:hungapp
szModver:0.0.0.0
Offset: 00000000

It also created a mdmp file, which was also referred to in the crash report. One more txt file was also created.

But when I selected "don't send to M$" option, the files were automatically removed! So now the temporary folder is empty!
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Happened once again after I closed x2 forcibly and started it again.

This time the CPU was upwards of 80%. A lot of files were, but I did not see lot of folder paths launching and closing rapidly in the "files" section of Process Explorer, as before.
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have you noticed any pattern to this? is it confined to the new version 1.72?
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narayan wrote: But when I selected "don't send to M$" option, the files were automatically removed! So now the temporary folder is empty!
Hi Narayan,
It happened to me once. You have to save a copy of the temp files before clicking any button in the MS Windows dialog. Sometimes it does not even work. The trick is to display the MS report detailed view and select the details. Then do a copy/paste to save them to a text editor. Same thing with the temp files.
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is it confined to the new version 1.72?
yes.
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nikos wrote:have you noticed any pattern to this? is it confined to the new version 1.72?
I personally never experienced this problem before version 1.7.1.4.

Is there a way to send you information for debugging?
Can I - for example - make a memory dump when X2 is still running?

The last time I had this problem (a few days ago), I profiled using Filemon from Sysinternals.
The only strange thing about X2 during the problematic time was that is seemed to excessively look through dirs, strangely the dirs containing the user specific data for Firefox (although none of those dirs was opened in any tab at that moment!)
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Post by narayan »

Now that I have noticed this, I find this a consistent behavior.

Time to send a debug version I guess...
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is firefox the common link here? try running x2 without firefox and see what happens
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FireFox (and also Acrobat) were running, and x2 was showing the high CPU percentage.

I closed both other apps one by one. No difference to the CPU (still high).

Then I closed x2, and started the other apps first, and then started x2. The CPU remained low, without any change.

Again closed x2, and this time started x2 first and then the other two apps. The CPU remained low, without any change.
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so i don't thing you have nailed this, have you? ;)
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Post by narayan »

No, of course.

I just put down all details, so that you do not have false hopes there...
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is x2 responsive when this happens?
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