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I also haven't seen these for quite some time. I believe the most likely situation is hanging scripts, since CVS doesn't have a timeout for running those... Hmmm, maybe it should have? I guess you could use ProcessExplorer (from sysinternals.com) to see whether there are subprocess and open files... Regards, Flávio On 1/11/06, David Jackman <David.Jackman at fastsearch.com> wrote: > I'm noticing lots of "dead" cvs.exe processes accumulating over time (at > least I think they're dead). Is this a common situation? What's the > likely cause and can it be avoided? > > On the devguy installation page > (http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm), he talks about > a nightly cron job to clean these up, but also says he doesn't see cvs > processes hanging very much anymore. I see it all the time now that > I've installed 2.5. > > ..David..