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- 1Developer recounts program hung for 40 minutes at zero CPU●Un programa mío se quedó colgado cuarenta minutos. No a mil vueltas por segundo: a cero por ciento de CPU . No estaba tr
A developer describes a debugging case where their program, which orchestrates external command-line tools, froze for forty minutes without consuming any CPU — not spinning, simply doing nothing, yet never finishing. The write-up explains what it means when a process is stuck at zero percent usage, pointing to deadlocks or waiting on subprocesses rather than a busy loop, and resonates with other programmers who have faced similar hangs.