This problem appears to be intermittent. Several people reported trying the
test and not having any problems. So, I tried it on a second machine with
AS817, which, like my orignal machine was a 2.8GHZ hyperthreading box
(though it was AS813). Thinking that hyperthreading might be the problem I
Am running ActiveState perl v5.8.7 on Windows XP Pro. Tried the following
test script. The idea here is to run two parallel threads that process a
common queue of todo items. The processing however, requires running some
external executables. Had first tried the backtic as I'd like to get the
outpu
