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Unattended IE 8 with some opened page was spiking 50% CPU on a 2 processor PC. We saved the dump file and it had the longest HTML processing user space thread stack we had ever seen:
0:000> !runaway User Mode Time Thread Time 17:f18 0 days 14:13:41.290 23:6b0 0 days 0:00:41.309 4:c88 0 days 0:00:29.031 10:129c 0 days 0:00:03.853 3:126c 0 days 0:00:02.620 16:f98 0 days 0:00:01.934 18:f8c 0 days 0:00:00.702 2:cd4 0 days 0:00:00.280 8:c40 0 days 0:00:00.109 7:1348 0 days 0:00:00.093 11:ee4 0 days 0:00:00.015 24:490 0 days 0:00:00.000 22:d98 0 days 0:00:00.000 21:104c 0 days 0:00:00.000 20:1090 0 days 0:00:00.000 19:f60 0 days 0:00:00.000 15:1150 0 days 0:00:00.000 14:1048 0 days 0:00:00.000 13:d28 0 days 0:00:00.000 12:c68 0 days 0:00:00.000 9:ab0 0 days 0:00:00.000 6:69c 0 days 0:00:00.000 5:c28 0 days 0:00:00.000 1:1264 0 days 0:00:00.000 0:fa8 0 days 0:00:00.000 0:017:x86> kL 100 ChildEBP RetAddr 0c3b6f48 70072d55 mshtml!CPtsClient::CreateParaclient+0x9 0c3b6f9c 70072288 mshtml!Ptls5::FsConductCensusZooCore+0x30a 0c3b7094 70071720 mshtml!Ptls5::FsConductCensusZooCore+0x62f 0c3b70d4 70072647 mshtml!Ptls5::FsConductCensusZooCore+0x9e1 0c3b71a4 700ce813 mshtml!Ptls5::FsFormatZooCore+0x2f6 0c3b71d8 700cc65b mshtml!Ptls5::FsFormatZoo+0x51 0c3b730c 700cc147 mshtml!Ptls5::FsCreateSubpageCore+0x6f7 0c3b733c 700ccb58 mshtml!Ptls5::FsCreateSubpage+0x82 0c3b73fc 700c9640 mshtml!Ptls5::FsGetSavedPel+0x6ce 0c3b751c 700cae11 mshtml!Ptls5::FsFormatPelCore+0x73d 0c3b75f0 700cb347 mshtml!Ptls5::FsAdjustPageVertical+0x58e 0c3b7690 700c9e1d mshtml!Ptls5::FsAdjustPageVertical+0x15cb 0c3b76e4 700cd0e1 mshtml!Ptls5::FsDuplicateParaFormatResult+0x2be 0c3b778c 700cf796 mshtml!Ptls5::FsFormatOrReusePara+0x400