Folks -

I am observing some weird behavior in our application during shutdown, let
me see if I can explain this clearly.

Lets say I open 2 instances - A and B - of the application on my machine.
Regardless of what order I shutdown the instances, the process associated
with A always takes longer to end than the process associated with B. Also
there is a noticeable 100% CPU spike during the shutdown of instance A which
I never see with instance B.

To make this even more interesting, if I never shutdown instance A, then all
subsequent instances started shutdown and exit their processes in a timely
fashion even if instance B is shutdown. However, if I shutdown instance A,
the first (and only the first) instance started after this shutdown exhibits
the same behavior as instance A.

Has anyone seen this kind of behavior before?  Does the framework do
something different the very first time the application is started like
security checks etc? that it wouldn't do for subsequent startups/shutdowns?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Ice