title: Finding Needle in a haystack (thread in the process)
body: <p>One of my threads in the process is burning one CPU core to the full extent.  8 cores, 12,5% CPU used.  Look at this (procexp screenshot)</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10020780/scr1.PNG" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10020780/scr1.PNG</a></p>
  
  <p>Another thing that bothers me it <code>Start Address</code> of <code>0x0</code>!?!?</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to find the thread in the list provided with the VS2008 Thread View, but not a single thread there (or I have overlooked) has a tight loop (without <code>Sleep()</code>) or a clear indication of trouble.</p>
  
  <p>Any hints?</p>
  
  <p>CASE UPDATE:</p>
  
  <p>It seems like I'm beyond my code realm on this one; I'll post a pictures obtained with STACK button, so you can maybe have some hunch on the issue at hand.</p>
  
  <p>First situation</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10020780/smallstack.PNG" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10020780/smallstack.PNG</a></p>
  
  <p>Second situation (same thread, I get this two alternating)</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10020780/largerstack.PNG" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10020780/largerstack.PNG</a></p>
  
  <p>Guys, where am I?  I do use Windows Media, Sockets, ...</p>