DDE crashed, consumes 100% CPU

  • In keeping with the random catastrophic failure model that DDE gives every evidence of employing, it’s locked up and consuming 100% of the CPU during a build, after saving a style update on a custom control. Surprise! Random catastrophic failure during build! And only three times this afternoon.

  • The three little bars are crawling steadily along, like it’s really doing something, but it’s quite obviously an animated GIF running in a separate thread. Now I know I can ignore that eye candy.

  • Fortunately DDE recovered pretty well from being killed, at least this time. It did make a NSD; if anyone happens to be interested I’ll be happy to pass along all or part as requested…