http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21209
--- Comment #3 from Jörg Höhle hoehle@users.sourceforge.net 2010-01-18 10:21:53 --- Curiously, this is not an issue on MacOSX 10.5.8 with wine-1.1.36. The pauses are so short that it's barely disturbing (like on Linux prior to wine-0.9.44). Yet the effect is still present on another machine with Ubuntu Linux. Perhaps the Mac's dual core avoids a dead-lock while the single core Linux machine waits for something? BTW, on Linux as well, in rare cases are the pauses very short (when wine+Ankh is started anew). So there's indeed some randomness to the issue.