winedevice.exe

Toa-Nuva · Post by **Toa-Nuva** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:00 am

Hi!

I was just wondering what this winedevice.exe actually does. I usually have uTorrent running in Wine all day, and sometimes winedevice.exe starts to use the full CPU. But if I just kill it, everything continues to work just fine...

Toa-Nuva

MicroCai · Post by **MicroCai** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:09 am

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:43 pm

Toa-Nuva wrote:I was just wondering what this winedevice.exe actually does.

It's a "kernel" process to run kernel drivers in.

Toa-Nuva · Post by **Toa-Nuva** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:41 pm

So it is only needed if I install a Windows driver?

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:35 am

I feel it's likely that winedevice is responsible for creating and writing to files, since if it suddenly takes up 100% CPU it could mean that it's possibly creating a several hundred MB file from one of your torrents. I really have no actual clue, though.

Toa-Nuva · Post by **Toa-Nuva** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:33 pm

No, I don't think so - when winedevice.exe starts using the full CPU, I just kill it, but uTorrent continues to upload and download like before.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:59 pm

Toa-Nuva wrote:So it is only needed if I install a Windows driver?

Yes, however Wine comes with one such "driver" [mountmgr.sys] that's critical to Wine operation. If that's the one that starts to consume all your CPU, that means something is wrong with HAL/dbus.

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