Re: New snapshot with fork race potentially solved (attn hyperthreaded dog owners)

2004-08-31 Thread David Chatterton
> I made a change to cygwin based on some research by Pierre Humblet > (what else is new?) which should solve a fork race which would cause > strange behavior on multi-CPU or hyperthreaded systems. > > It's probably too much to hope that this would solve all of the > reported problems but I would a

Re: Cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.

2004-08-30 Thread David Chatterton
Chuck, We have a build environment for a reasonably large piece of code that several people could be building at the same time. On a dual 800MHz P3 and even a quad 550MHz box we had no problems, but upgrading to a dual 1.8GHz AMD box improved build times dramatically but the vast majority of builds

Re: Cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.

2004-08-28 Thread David Chatterton
There was some discussion back in April regarding problems with loaded hyperthreaded machines including thread activation errors and other strange problems. Were these problems identified and resolved, or are they still outstanding? Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu