From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3021 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2004 16:11:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 2985 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2004 16:11:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.22.40) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 30 Jul 2004 16:11:53 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 60ED91B57A; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:12:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:10:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines (reprise) Message-ID: <20040730161203.GE27432@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040730155108.GD27432@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg01105.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:03:16PM -0400, Chuck McDevitt wrote: >On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:41:39AM -0400, Chuck McDevitt wrote: >>I've also been trying to convince my company to donate a hyperthreaded >>machine to someone on the cygwin project, but so far, management's >>reaction is "How do we know anyone will work on the problem, even if we >>give them a machine?" And I'm not even sure who we would send the >>machine to. > >cgf wrote: >>I would probably be the best candidate and I would work on it if a >>machine was donated. >> >>FWIW, I have a multi-cpu machine and have, in the past, run the >>supposedly failing tests for days without problem. >> >>Btw, please don't include raw email addresses in your replies. > >The problem only appears if there is something else running >on the box that is creating processes, such as a large make, >or some other kind of heavy load. > >I've run the test for a good day or so on a box with no other load, and >the problem didn't occur, but doing several makes and/or builds in >Visual Studio at the same time, and the bug would occur very quickly. > >P.s. I've tried to get this stupid Lotus notes to not send any raw >email addresses, but it's hard to tell what it is really sending, as it >doesn't show me what the e-mail will >look like to you. Notes is a major pain-in-the-ass, but it's what I'm >stuck with here. (Well, whatever you're using, you're making it pretty hard to have a normal mailing list discussion since you're top-posting and not using any attribution.) Anyway, I have tried doing other things while the tests were running without problems. My SMP system is a dual PIII 733, so maybe it just isn't powerful enough to trigger the problem. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/