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

hyperthreading fix try #2

2005-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
The latest snapshot has my latest try at fixing the dreaded hyperthreading problem. My previous fix was flawed in that once Corinna corrected a typo in my change, the problem showed up again. So, I've reworked the synchronization logic again and even ran cygwin through that test suite thing that