Github for windows - ssh-agent.exe using high CPU + 100% disk?

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antfx picture antfx · Oct 24, 2014 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I've just installed Github for Windows on my Windows 8.1 machine and it appears to work fine except that my machine performance drops down dramatically.

Looking at task manager I see that ssh-agent.exe is using a constant 25% CPU (no doubt 100% of one of my cores) and the disk usage is at 100%.

I have had a look on the Internet but can't find any reference to what might be causing this.

Any ideas what might be causing this and how to resolve it?

UPDATE:

I can kill the process and GitHub for Windows appears to keep working but the ssh-agent.exe process starts up again as soon as I close and restart Github for Windows.

Answer

Markus Olsson picture Markus Olsson · Oct 24, 2014

We've seen this happen on occasion due to a race condition between ssh-agent and anti-virus software competing over resources. Do you have any anti-virus software installed? Would you be able to temporarily turn it off and see if the problem persists? We'd be very keen to dig deeper into this if you could reach out to [email protected].

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