From: Jon Date: 2010-03-24T02:50:23+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:28895] Re: Indentifying key MRI-on-Windows issues > If you want to examine a little more closely the "real root cause" you > can do so by downloading "process explorer", run it, double click on > ruby.exe, choose the "Threads" tab then double click on the thread > number that seems the most active. It will show you the method it's > currently in (and chances are, the one it is bottlenecking on). ...as well as Mark and Bryce's other tools http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd535533.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx