What is DXP.exe doing?

[robotix3]

If you've used Altium for any appreciable amount of time you have probably noticed DXP.exe hanging around after you close Altium, sucking up CPU and memory usage, and confusing you when trying to update.

Does anyone know what it's doing?

[Gerhard_dk4xp]

I killed the Altium designer, just to see it die, and
there is no leftover dxp.exe process.

(Version 16.something, I did not keep the subscription
because I had to find solutions for all weirdnesses
myself anyway.)

What happens if you kill the dxp.exe process by force?

[robotix3]

I'm running 17.1 right now, but I also saw it on 16

[dave_k]

Lucky me .. I don't see that behavior on V6

[Mechatrommer]

DXP.exe hanging around after you close Altium, sucking up CPU and memory usage, and confusing you when trying to update.
Does anyone know what it's doing?

dxp is altium, altium is dxp, meaning when you see dxp is still running, altium is still running, its just visually closed down so you think altium is closed. this usually happened when an application has not cleared up any resources it created hence it will refuse to abort and do its housekeeping stuff. long story short... its a bug.

[free_electron]

DXP is the server application for Altium Designer. It is basically the GUI that access all the DLL's in altium.
When shutting down Altium DXP is the last thing to unload. It may linger for a few seconds after the last altium window closes, but it is not normal to hang around for more than 5 seconds.
I've never seen that behavior

[T3sl4co1l]

Think I've seen that before (version 15/16?).  Also such shenanigans as crashing during exit (after file save, fortunately ).

I wouldn't be surprised if most of the spooky crashy issues are down to memory leaks / hanging pointers, cache coherency, and stuff like that.

Tim