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100% CPU Usage

When I run IE6 in Crossover on my Macbook the wineloader and wineserver processes use almost 100% of my CPU and slow the system way down. I never had this problem with the trial version of Crossover. What's going on?

I think that's a known regression in CrossOver 8, triggered by some https:// websites. We're debugging this right now. Can you file a support ticket and list the websites that cause this problem?

I, too, am having this problem. The other symptom I'm seeing is that there are a handful of zombie wineserver processes; the IE6 won't quit (unresponsive) and one wineserver process is using up the CPU and is also seemingly unresponsive. Force quitting that wineserver brings the CPU usage down but the other processes hang out until force quit.

aps (aps at ieee period org)

That's partly from the https:// bug mentioned earlier, it sounds like its leaking your system out of memory. As far as zombie processes go it's typical to see at least one 'non-responding' process when Crossover is running as the Mac OS can't see into some Crossover processes (like wineserver) and thinks it's frozen when it's actually fine.

Hi all, I have the same issue with IE6 in CrossOver Pro 8. However after I changed to use the builtin wininet, it seems to be resolved.

I reverted back to 7.1.2 to fix my problems. Forgive the stupid question but what's wininet?

aps.

It's one of the .dll's (low-level windows components) in Crossover. To switch the wininet dll to built-in, you'd launch Crossover's Configure->Manage Bottles menu. Highlight the bottle in question, go to Control Panel->Winecfg, launch, and then go to the libraries tab. Find wininet on the list, edit, and set to built-in.

Stefan Dösinger wrote:

I think that's a known regression in CrossOver 8, triggered by some
https:// websites. We're debugging this right now. Can you file a
support ticket and list the websites that cause this problem?

Identical problem -- submitted ticket. Yes, using IE6 to access secure https:// web site. Thx.

Jack Phinney wrote:

It's one of the .dll's (low-level windows components) in Crossover.
To switch the wininet dll to built-in, you'd launch Crossover's
Configure->Manage Bottles menu. Highlight the bottle in question,
go to Control Panel->Winecfg, launch, and then go to the libraries
tab. Find wininet on the list, edit, and set to built-in.

I'm having the same issues as above and tried this fix, but found that when I restarted IE6, I kept getting a looping error msg re. having to restart IE. Couldn't get around it until I went back to "Native then builtin". Any other suggestions ?


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At this point we've got a build of IE6 available for users which fixes this problem (our upcoming release of Crossover 9.0 will also contain this fix). I'll send you an email with instructions - other users can feel free to write into info@codeweavers.com with "IE6 users 100% CPU" issues, and we'll send them the fix.

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