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RE: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines (reprise)
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 00:08:57 -0500
- Subject: RE: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines (reprise)
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >FYI, the win98 testcase that I reported
> > >(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg01120.html) locks
> up in the
> > >same way (as the testcase in this thread) on my
> hyperthreaded machine
> > >at work (P4, XPPro), but runs fine fine with HT disabled in BIOS.
> > >Maybe seeing what the two scripts do in common may help
> narrow down
> > >the cause.
> > >
> > >Also, on my win98 box, the testcase in
> > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg01088.html fails silently
> > >(returns to command prompt with no errors) after 20k-50k
> iterations.
> > >(my 98 box is a single cpu PIII btw).
> >
> >Your response to my plea for 'no more "me toos"' was to send
> a "me too".
> >
> >Yup. Uh huh.
>
> My apologies for offering a different testcase to help
> isolate the cause of a known bug. And my further apologies
> for making the mistake of noting that both testcases for two
> different bugs apply to both of the bugs. Next time I'll know better!
>
> :-)
>
You should also apologize for offering the new information that a single CPU
PIII is neither a hyperthreaded machine nor a multiprocessor machine, yet
fails a test case which heretofore has been reported to only have problems
on hyperthreaded and/or multiprocessor machines. You're not Just Mean(tm),
are you?
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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