EXTERNAL: Re: sshd high cpu load

Wells, Roger K. ROGER.K.WELLS@leidos.com
Fri May 21 12:54:33 GMT 2021


On 5/20/21 4:35 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
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> Greetings, Wells, Roger K.!
>
>>> On 5/19/2021 12:48 AM, A. Doggy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am running cygwin openssh as a windows service. I have been doing
>>>> so for many years with out issue. Recently, I have been running into
>>>> an issue where it maxes out my cpu on any version newer than 8.4p1-1.
>>>> The solution is to downgrade to 8.4p1-1. My server machine is a dell
>>>> t330 running windows 10. I am not a business despite using business
>>>> grade hardware.I have tried both 20h2 and 21h1 but no luck. There are
>>>> no users signed in when the issues occur and occurs within minutes of
>>>> booting up. The only change from the default config is I have it
>>>> running on a nonstandard port. Any advice is welcome as I really
>>>> would like to upgrade to a newer version. Thanks
>> I noticed your initial contact and tried to duplicate what you observed
>> to no avail.
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-April/248299.html
>
>> I set up cygwin openssh as a windows service as you described and also
>> have been doing it this way for many years.
>> sshd.exe doesn't show any cpu load on task manager even after days (yes
>> it still works when I log in from another machine)
>> My system is a Lenovo Thinkpad-x240 running updated W10. Cygwin is at
>> 3.2.0(0.340/5/3)
>> and ssh is at OpenSSH_8.5p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020.
>> Let me know if you would like me to try something else.
> Connect from remote machine to the usual shell prompt and force kill remote
> ssh process.
> The hung SSH session will cause full core CPU load.
will do & report back
>
>
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> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Thursday, May 20, 2021 23:31:39
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>

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