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After upgrade from 3.3.3 to 3.4.0 one core 100% in use only when Ram Disk connected

10 years ago, by harrydb in RAM Disk Forum

Hmm, when I click on the 'stack' button it gives me "Unable to access thread" (as administrator). I guess because it is the System process? Attached is the same shot with symbols loaded. I did attached the stacks for the active threads from ramdisk and truecrypt. I'll try this on an other machine to come up with a step by step way to reproduce this.

After upgrade from 3.3.3 to 3.4.0 one core 100% in use only when Ram Disk connected

10 years ago, by harrydb in RAM Disk Forum

Thanks for the quick response! I am using version 7.1a of truecrypt (latest stable) with whole drive encryption (so pre-boot). There is one partition on the disk (C: ) that contains everything, including the image connected to the ramdisk. The ramdisk itself is just NTFS formatted, not encrypted. I'll try to create a ramdisk without an image attached a bit later to see if that makes a difference (

After upgrade from 3.3.3 to 3.4.0 one core 100% in use only when RamDisk connected

10 years ago, by harrydb in RAM Disk Forum

Hi, after upgrading to version 3.4.0 of RAM Disk I noticed that one of my eight (logical) cpu cores is in use 100% ( / 8 ~ 12.5%) by the System process. It seems that a spin lock is triggered, see attached screen shot. As soon as I disconnect the drive in the RAM Disk manager cpu usage goes back down. This issue was not present in version 3.3.3. I also attached a screenshot with my settings. I