Named CPU skyrockets for ActiveX objects in IE 5.5 browser

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun May 26 23:52:50 UTC 2002


At 07:00 PM 5/26/02, JB wrote:
>I have discovered that the same problem occurs when I stream audio with
>Windows Media Player.  If I just run WMP without a stream, CPU rests around
>9-10%.  If I then stream, CPU ranges from 21-26%.  When I then start the
>named service, the named service takes up 63-71% of the CPU, with total CPU
>ranging from 97-100%.
>
>At this point, stopping the stream is not enough.  I presume that stopping
>the stream does not inherently release the ActiveX object that may be
>affecting BIND's CPU usage.
>
>If I shut down WMP, or stop the named service, everything returns to normal.
>
>To tested it with something other than a stream, I opened WMP with named.exe
>running... everything OK.  Then opened \WINNT\clock.avi.  Same thing...
>named CPU jumps from about 0% to 61%, and stays up there until I close WMP,
>or stop the BIND service.

I'll look into this when I can.  If I understand correctly, you are running
clock.avi using Windows Media Player?  Or do you require IE 5.5? Also,
which version of BIND are you running? On the same system?  What does
ipconfig/all show?

>Again, for those that didn't read earlier posts about this happening when
>certain ActiveX controls ran in IE, usually advertisements, the logs do not
>show any queries showing up, except those that are explicitly created, such
>as through HOST.  This named server is not advertised on the internet, with
>no domain pointing to it.  This is primarily a testing environment.  Of
>course, there is no way I can deploy BIND until I understand this problem.
>
>Thanks,
>
>JB

Danny



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