Large CPU Hang due to Stride.Core.Threading on Windows
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Description
Release: 4.2.0.2293
Platform: Windows 11
I have been using the stride engine just fine until today when suddenly even the most trivial stride templates (like the default ball) took 100% of all cores of my CPU. It led to massive freezing of my computer and the inability to do much of anything with stride. I am assuming something changed though what - I am not sure.
To Reproduce: Unfortunately I have no idea how to reproduce this... I cleaned and reinstalled everything to do with stride (.NET, MSBuild, VS etc.) but still didnt go away. I am assuming this must be a windows update?
Screenshots
I did some profiling to find where it was happening:
As you can see there is a massive portion of time being consumed on the wait call of LowLevelInfoSemaphore.Wait.
I downloaded and built my own latest version of stride - same problem
Temporary Fix
I bypassed Stride.Threading to System.Threading and it works normally again
public unsafe void QueueWorkItem([NotNull, Pooled] Action workItem, int amount = 1)
{
for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++)
System.Threading.ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem((o) => workItem());
return;
etc.
Let me know if you want me to dig further into this!
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Research direction
Start by examining the profiling evidence around Stride.Threading's LowLevelInfoSemaphore.Wait and compare it with the reported System.Threading.ThreadPool workaround. Reproduce the Windows 11 high-CPU behavior if possible, then confirm that the threading path no longer consumes all CPU cores under the affected templates.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- game-dev, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100