WinSCP.exe pulls 100 % CPU permanently.

Hello,

that happens even if I have ended WinSCP a long time ago. The WinSCP.exe stays as a process exist.
What must I do so that WINSCP completely ends itself?

Thanks to, Frank

What version do you use?

Version 4.0.2 Build 344 and WinXP SP2

As a first test, can you check if automatic check for application updates in on and turn it off?

WinSCP version 4.0.2 Build 344 (under WinXP SP2) is entering in a high-processor usage loop while trying to refresh a directory with many folders (more than 1800); happens if I use the "Refresh" button or after changing access permissions of some folder (what automatically leads to a refresh). Maybe it can occur in more events, but I only tested for these two cases.
Thanks.

P.S.: Auto-updates are off.

@Ricardo: This is known issue that has been resolved already. The fix will be included into the next release.

Thank, I wait for new version.

@FrankMeyer: It have been released already, 4.0.3.

I have a comparable problem here with version 4.0.3 (Build 345) on Windows XP SP2. After a period of time when WinSCP is running, CPU consumption of WinSCP is permanently at 45%-49%. I don't know exactly how to reproduce it, but it happens nearly every day.

Thank you for your help

@bohne: Did you have the problem with older releases?

Yes I had the same problem with an older version, I think it was 3.8.2.

OK, I'll check it.

Hello,

First, sorry for my bad English ;)
Second, thanks for your work on that great program ;)

I have the 'same' problem with cpu-usage but (only) from begin of a connection to end of connection and closing WinSCP.
So, when I close WinSCP, it runs and runs and runs with 100 % usage from one core.
If I start WinSCP without to initiate a connection, it's exiting correctly, but from start to initiate a con. to the end of WinSCP, it doesn't.

I had / have this problem by
WinSCP 4.0.4 build 346 and all previous versions after 3.8.2
On following sys: Win 2000 SP4 (Pentium 3, 1GHz) and WinXP SP2 (Pentium D 2,8 GHz)
On my notebook with WinXP SP2 and and Intel P4 3GHz I haven't this problem.

That's very confusing!
Thanks a lot!
Greets Andy

New install of XP SP2. Installed WinSCP 4.03 and had severe CPU drain so updated to 4.04 today. Problem persists but not as severe.

I thought maybe it wasn't playing nice with some other program or process I had running so I started ending processes. WinSCP started working like expected but I wasn't able to narrow it down to which process was the offender. I'll keep working on it to figure out which one is the problem and report back here. I do not think it is a problem with WinSCP.

This solved the problem on my PC.
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CS3 seems to have been the bad guy with Adobe's "take-over-the-'puter" installation.

jholzy wrote:

This solved the problem on my PC.
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CS3 seems to have been the bad guy with Adobe's "take-over-the-'puter" installation.

Thanks for the link.
What kind of problem has removing "Bonjour" actually solved? When did you have CPU problems? Please note that there are several (maybe) distinct problems described in this topic. Thanks.

Hello, I had the same problems described here – permanent 50% CPU usage and WinSCP.exe stays running even after the app is closed. The problems disappeared when I disabled automatic updates in WinSCP. Now the only problem is that WinSCP hangs when I run "Check for updates".

@Guest: Can I have an email contact to you, so I can send you a debug version?

@martin: You send the debug version to martin.talpa AT centrum.cz.

Hello.

I am not well versed in this field but we had a script built that uses WinSCP to help us transfer files. It will grab files from a server, do other things and then drop them to several different servers. When we first turn it on it works great. It's supposed to be left running but we can't because it will shoot up the CPU to 100%. Before the memory would remain really low but now it's running pretty high too.

I cleaned up files and it's the only thing running. I turned off it off and noticed that the CPU and Memory remained at 100 and 73. The only tasks running are WinSCP. More than a dozen WinSCP tasks running at once. I have been searching for a solution and noticed that a lot of forum questions on here have a similar problem. Memory leaks, heavy CPU usage, and hanging. We are running on a cloud server so once the CPU is this high I can't even log on to the server with rdp file. Have to restart the whole server before I can use it again.

Thank you!

@sandralizbar: If there's only one (few) WinSCP process running, does it have 100% CPU or also low? Isn't your problem that you do not exit the script at the end? So you end up with lot of idle WinSCP processes, which eventualy clog the system?

There is only ever supposed to be one WinSCP process running at a time, yes. You are correct it appears that even though the script tells it to end/exit at the end of each process they don't and we end up with a lot of idle WinSCP processed that eventually clog up the system.

In the beginning, before the build-up, the CPU and memory usage is at 30% each. Sometimes it will make it through each process (15 total) once and then the buildup begins and other times it can't make it through before it shoots up to 100%. At one point it ran smoothly for weeks. For months now it keeps doing this.

@sandralizbar: Please attach a full session log file (using the latest version of WinSCP).