Re: Hyperthreading problem creates a hang

2010-11-18 Thread Tim Prince
On 11/18/2010 2:25 AM, paritosh chandragupta wrote: Hi folks , I am hitting the following problem while using gmake :- 617 [exiting thread] gmake 9576 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread activation , name is NULL . Now I am indeed using an old cygwin version and can not update it due to

Re: Hyperthreading problem creates a hang

2010-11-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:55:50PM +0530, paritosh chandragupta wrote: Hi folks , I am hitting the following problem while using gmake :- 617 [exiting thread] gmake 9576 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread activation , name is NULL . Now I am indeed using an old cygwin version and can not update

Re: hyperthreading fix try #2

2005-02-14 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:09:21PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:17:03AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: Nick Coghlan wrote: Command lines looked like (with thread and file counts filled in): $ python /lib/python2.4/test/test_threadedtempfile.py -t threads -f files

Re: hyperthreading fix try #2

2005-02-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Christopher Faylor wrote: To help preserve my tenuous grasp on sanity, please reply to *this thread* when reporting problems. Please don't start a new thread. Just reply here so that mailing list threading is preserved and I can easily check for all success or error reports. As before, any kind

Re: hyperthreading fix try #2

2005-02-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Of course, I don't actually know if this is a related problem or not. I'm hoping Chris can check it easily, since it happens with the standard Cygwin Python, not just with the version I built from Python's current CVS. I took the obvious step of

Re: hyperthreading fix try #2

2005-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:17:03AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: Nick Coghlan wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Of course, I don't actually know if this is a related problem or not. I'm hoping Chris can check it easily, since it happens with the standard Cygwin Python, not just with the version I

Python 2.4's test_threadedtempfile failing (was Re: hyperthreading fix try #2)

2005-02-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:17:03AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: Command lines looked like (with thread and file counts filled in): $ python /lib/python2.4/test/test_threadedtempfile.py -t threads -f files Is this a regression? Was this also problem with 1.5.12? Unless

Re: Python 2.4's test_threadedtempfile failing (was Re: hyperthreading fix try #2)

2005-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:12:53PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:17:03AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: Command lines looked like (with thread and file counts filled in): $ python /lib/python2.4/test/test_threadedtempfile.py -t threads -f files Is

Re: Python 2.4's test_threadedtempfile failing (was Re: hyperthreading fix try #2)

2005-02-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:12:53PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: I can't say for sure if it's a regression, since I never got 1.5.12 to work properly at all (and hence didn't back up the bin directory before dropping the snapshot binaries into it). At the moment, I'm

RE: hyperthreading fix try #2

2005-02-12 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On my machine my own test case, and the make -j2 test case, have been running now for more than an hour, no problem so far. You seem to be on the right track :) Thanks for your efforts

Re: hyperthreading fix try #2

2005-02-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not claiming that it is right now. I haven't tried a make -j test yet. I just thought it was time to release another try on the world again: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ To help preserve my tenuous grasp on sanity, please reply to *this thread* when reporting

20050208 snapshot = yay! (Was: Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1)

2005-02-09 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rolf Campbell wrote: This test does fail (in the same way) on non-hyperthreaded machines (Win2000Pro on a PIII). But, this is a regression from 1.5.12 (that test runs fine on the non-HT machine with 1.5.12. There was (maybe still is) a problem with running make -j without the max task

Re: 20050208 snapshot = yay! (Was: Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1)

2005-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:27:34PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: Rolf Campbell wrote: This test does fail (in the same way) on non-hyperthreaded machines (Win2000Pro on a PIII). But, this is a regression from 1.5.12 (that test runs fine on the non-HT machine with 1.5.12. There was (maybe still

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Brian Gallew wrote on Monday, February 07, 2005 2:18 PM: Christopher Faylor wrote: Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run three invocations of the scripts for four days without a hiccup. Previously, I had problems within minutes. Go, you! Someone should

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 09:31, J?rg Schaible wrote: Brian Gallew wrote on Monday, February 07, 2005 2:18 PM: Christopher Faylor wrote: Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run three invocations of the scripts for four days without a hiccup. Previously, I had problems

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: 08 February 2005 08:48 On Feb 8 09:31, J?rg Schaible wrote: Brian Gallew wrote on Monday, February 07, 2005 2:18 PM: Christopher Faylor wrote: Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Brian Gallew
Christopher Faylor wrote: Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run three invocations of the scripts for four days without a hiccup. Previously, I had problems within minutes. Go, you! Someone should give you a gold star for this. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 08:17, Brian Gallew wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run three invocations of the scripts for four days without a hiccup. Previously, I had problems within minutes. Go, you! Someone should give you a gold star

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 7 08:17, Brian Gallew wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run three invocations of the scripts for four days without a hiccup. Previously, I had problems within minutes.

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Volker Bandke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf, a) Your test case fails on my machine as well, right at the beginning b) I seem to remember that there was/is a separate problem with make - -j, even on non-hyperthreasd machines. Unfortunately I cannot search

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread CV
Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes: I'm not naive enough to think that I've solved all of the hyperthreading problems but I would like people to try today's snapshot (or any snapshot newer than today's) and report on whether it solves the problem or not. If

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread CV
CV or254498 at hotmail.com writes: Another vote for the silver star ! Oops, I meant the gold star of course ! Cheers CV -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of CV Sent: 07 February 2005 18:54 CV or254498 at hotmail.com writes: Another vote for the silver star ! Oops, I meant the gold star of course ! Cheers CV I thought you meant CGF should be promoted to Sherriff!

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:32:09AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 7 08:17, Brian Gallew wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:17:52AM +0100, Volker Bandke wrote: Which system configuration did you use to recreate the problem? I got enough donations to purchase the following: Motherboard:ASUS P4P800SE Memory: 1G CPU:CPU P4/3.0EGHz 800M 478P/1MB HT RT HD:

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Dave Korn wrote: I thought you meant CGF should be promoted to Sherriff! Oh no! He's much to mean for being promoted to Sherriff. Think of the children! But those gold stars are more then well deserved. Thanks cgf! Regards mks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:44 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1 On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:17:52AM +0100, Volker Bandke wrote: Which system configuration did you use to recreate

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-07 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher, thanks for the explanation (I read, and even understood it) Good job (Explanation and partial fix). With kind Regards|\

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-06 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have started my test script about half an hour ago, and it is still running. It never managed to do that before. This could be a good sign. Now, the snapshot DLL is far larger than the standard dll (I would ASSume because of debug info). Can

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:22:48PM +0100, Volker Bandke wrote: I have started my test script about half an hour ago, and it is still running. It never managed to do that before. This could be a good sign. Now, the snapshot DLL is far larger than the standard dll (I would ASSume because of debug

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: [...] Anyway, I took a look at the pipe handling code for the 457th time and this time I saw a couple of obvious flaws in my logic. The synchronization was all off. Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run three invocations of the scripts

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-06 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FWIW, the test case I have been using is now running for 12 ours, and has done several million iterations. From that point of view the problem seems to be fixed. Now to run the real test case - building Hercules Which system configuration did

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-06 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf, a) Your test case fails on my machine as well, right at the beginning b) I seem to remember that there was/is a separate problem with make - -j, even on non-hyperthreasd machines. Unfortunately I cannot search the mailing list

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-02-02 Thread Joris van der Sande
Christopher Faylor wrote: However, here is one of the times I repeated that I don't want to do this over the internet: [...] Fixing this problem will be difficult. Dealing with race conditions like this always is difficult. Indeed, as an embedded software designer I know this first hand. I don't

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-02-01 Thread Joris van der Sande
Larry Hall wrote: Chris has already answered that question earlier in the discussion. He needs physical access to the machine to resolve this problem. Remote access isn't enough. Forgive my ignorance, but I read the archives back to 1 jan 2004 but found no explanation why remote access doesn't

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-02-01 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Joris van der Sande wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Chris has already answered that question earlier in the discussion. He needs physical access to the machine to resolve this problem. Remote access isn't enough. Forgive my ignorance, but I read the archives back to 1

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:01:11PM +0100, Joris van der Sande wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Chris has already answered that question earlier in the discussion. He needs physical access to the machine to resolve this problem. Remote access isn't enough. Forgive my ignorance, but I read the archives

Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access

2005-01-30 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:45 PM 1/30/2005, you wrote: The hyperthreading problem reproduces perfectly on my Hush ATX 2.8 GHz P4 (www.hush-pc.com): building my application fails consistent (within 1 minute) with hyperthreading enabled. Since my machine is on-line 24/7, would it help if I gave Christopher (or

RE: Hyperthreading Problem - suggestion

2005-01-10 Thread Mike Marchywka
This just caught my attention this morning, don't know if it has been a continuing discussion of not but let me contribute the following: a: Someone (close by to cfg) demonstrates that the bug/problem/issue appears on his machine I have many annoying problems ( erroneous thread activation

RE: Hyperthreading Problem - suggestion

2005-01-10 Thread Stéphane Donzé
. Regards, Stephane Donze -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Marchywka Sent: lundi 10 janvier 2005 12:42 To: Volker Bandke; Cygwin Subject: RE: Hyperthreading Problem - suggestion This just caught my attention this morning, don't

RE: Hyperthreading Problem - suggestion

2005-01-10 Thread Mike Marchywka
I've been on XP for a while but IIRC I was seeing it with hyperthread on 2000. -Original Message- From: Stéphane Donzé [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:41 AM To: Mike Marchywka; Volker Bandke; Cygwin Subject: RE: Hyperthreading Problem - suggestion

Re: Hyperthreading Problem - suggestion

2005-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:53:55AM +0100, Volker Bandke wrote: I really want that hyperthreading problem with Cygwin resolved. Does the following suggestion make any sense: (I assume cfg is in the US, if not, make the necessary changes) a: Someone (close by to cfg) demonstrates that the

Re: Hyperthreading Problem - suggestion

2005-01-10 Thread Adrian Cox
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:20 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: The last time I tried to duplicate the problem, I ran a test for three days, tying up a machine that I use for other purposes. I'd previously tried other variations as well. The system is an SMP system so there should have been a

Re: Hyperthreading Problem - suggestion

2005-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:20:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:53:55AM +0100, Volker Bandke wrote: I really want that hyperthreading problem with Cygwin resolved. Does the following suggestion make any sense: (I assume cfg is in the US, if not, make the necessary

Re: Hyperthreading problems

2005-01-02 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:08 PM 1/1/2005, you wrote: Brian Bruns wrote: rant I think you really really really need to reevaluate what you say before you hit send. The open source/free software developers that I communicate with/work with wrote the stuff they did because they needed an application/library/script for

Re: Hyperthreading problems

2005-01-01 Thread Stephane Donze
Brian Bruns wrote: If you guys want cygwin to be used by real people, in real life production or development environments, you should go a bit further than I don't have the problem on my computer, so fix it yourself. If you don't want to or are not able to pay attention to real world bugs, cygwin

RE: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-29 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sitting in Germany makes it difficult for me to physically send you a machine. What I can do, though, is to virtually hand over the machine to you via the net. I have an ADSL connection with 3 megabits/sec download and 512 kilobit/sec

Re: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-28 Thread Stephane Donze
Hi, Thank you for your reply. You are right, I did not look at the code, and I certainly do not pretend to be able to fix this problem. I am sorry to have to say that, but your message is a very good example of the fundamental difference between a project that is useable and reliable, and a

RE: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-28 Thread Bakken, Luke
multiprocessor machines and nobody seems to care about it. You cannot just expect people to wait until you someday have a system that shows the problem everytime they encounter a bug. Actually since Cygwin is a free project this is a reasonable expectation. If you want this fixed send the

RE: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-28 Thread Robb, Sam
If you guys want cygwin to be used by real people, in real life production or development environments, you should go a bit further than I don't have the problem on my computer, so fix it yourself. OK. So, if he's unable to reproduce the problem, you want him to... do what? Make random

Re: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Stephane Donze wrote: I am sorry to have to say that, but your message is a very good example of the fundamental difference between a project that is useable and reliable, and a project that almost works and will never do more that that. [snip] If you

Re: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-28 Thread Brian Bruns
On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 5:31 PM [EST], Stephane Donze wrote: Hi, Thank you for your reply. You are right, I did not look at the code, and I certainly do not pretend to be able to fix this problem. I am sorry to have to say that, but your message is a very good example of the

Re: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Stephane Donze wrote: If you guys want cygwin to be used by real people, in real life production or development environments, you should go a bit further than I don't have the problem on my computer, so fix it yourself. If you don't want to or are not able to pay attention to real world bugs,

Re: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:29:10PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Stephane Donze wrote: If you guys want cygwin to be used by real people, in real life production or development environments, you should go a bit further than I don't have the problem on my computer, so fix it yourself. If you don't

Re: Hyperthreading problems

2004-12-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 09:01:17AM +0100, St?phane Donz? wrote: we have encountered random hangs and crashes in cygwin (see output of cygcheck attached to this message) on a dual-processor server running Windows Server 2003. IMHO, the so-called hyperthreading problems reported recently on this

RE: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Richard Campbell
AFAIK there was some kind of problem with hyperthreading on cygwin, do anyone know if this problems has been fixed? No. And they won't be fixed until someone sends a system or enough money to buy a system with to CGF. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00082.html

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: I'm having some problems with hyperthreading machines and cygwin. AFAIK there was some kind of problem with hyperthreading on cygwin, do anyone know if this problems has been fixed? It'd be much more helpful if you actually tried to describe the

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Pablo Ruiz Garcia
PROTECTED] To: Pablo Ruiz Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:38 PM Subject: RE: HyperThreading AFAIK there was some kind of problem with hyperthreading on cygwin, do anyone know if this problems has been fixed? No. And they won't be fixed until someone

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: Well I found a minor workaround.. set Affinity of proccess to only use one CPU (Thread). Threads and CPUs are not remotely the same things, so I don't know why you have that in parenthesis. But, I guess it's nice to know that you found a

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Pablo Ruiz Garcia
- Original Message - From: Brian Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pablo Ruiz Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:47 PM Subject: Re: HyperThreading On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: Well I found a minor workaround.. set Affinity

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Ford snip To: Pablo Ruiz Garcia snip Cc: snip I'm sure you don't care, but... http://cygwin.com/acronyms/index.html#PCYMTNQREAIYR Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:47 PM Subject: Re: HyperThreading

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Chuck McDevitt
respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Pablo Ruiz Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Re: HyperThreading On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Ford snip To: Pablo Ruiz Garcia snip Cc: snip I'm sure you don't care