CPU Freezes

[nontroppo]

I've been getting occasional freezes of FARR on my work machine. FARR's CPU use goes up and it fails to respond to the trigger key. I have to kill the process. Version is V2.00.41 - I can't determine exactly what causes it yet:

[mouser]

does it happen while it's searching, or while minimized?
what setting do you have for "Inactive Memory Use" on General Options tab?

[nontroppo]

It seems to happen after I've launched something. I don't notice it until I need to bring it back up and it doesn't respond but the last thing launched OK, so my assumption is it is after launch.

My inactivated memory setting is "stay in mem - recommended". Is there any way I can debug the process when it is frozen like that (I know I can in OS X but maybe there is a way in Windows)?

[mouser]

Well you can attach to it and debug it but im not sure what good that would do.

Happens after you launch something - this sounds like the old problem we had where a digit key was sort of retriggering search as the form was closing.  It wouldn't surprise me terribly if this was what was happening again after i made changes to the key launching recently..

What keys are you using to launch farr? Tell me again if it's non-english keyboard?

The only thing that confuses me is that im not sure why farr wouldn't pop back up again even if this is happening.

[nontroppo]

I use alt+space (the annoying alt+space bug where FARR fails to gain focus is still there btw). Standard UK keyboard. I normally use function keys to launch things, though sometimes do press number keys.

Note most of the CPU use (I have 2 CPUs so 33% is actually 66% of one CPU) is red - meaning it is kernel rather than user activity IIRC (if that helps).