Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Joseph Kowalski wrote: Linda Walsh cygwin at tlinx dot org wrote: Hi, I don't claim to know what is going on, but I'm using a dual-core system and haven't noticed the problems you are having, but my processors are Intel Dual Core. That shouldn't make a difference I wouldn't think. Joseph

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-18 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Linda Walsh cygwin at tlinx dot org wrote: I'm 2500 miles from this machine at the moment, so I'm not exactly sure what you would see in add/remove programs. I suspect your list is correct, but you'ld also see Virtual Studio (which you probably missed due to the missing CR above).

RE: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-16 Thread Oliver Walsh
snip I'm wondering -- just as a data point, if you tried building on a dual-core, but setting all of your cygwin processes to run on one core? I used imagecfg.exe to set the affinity for all of the cygwin exes. It sorted out a lot of problems (pthread errors IIRC) I was hitting on a 2-way

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 5/16/07, Oliver Walsh Oliver.Walsh(MUHNUMANAH!)ansys.com wrote: snip I'm wondering -- just as a data point, if you tried building on a dual-core, but setting all of your cygwin processes to run on one core? I used imagecfg.exe to set the affinity for all of the cygwin exes. It sorted out a

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:32:10PM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote: one of them (for Intel Mac processors with Dual Cores in some stores) there was a driver that would not allow Cygwin to talk to the device like UNIX does because it did not have Hyperviser mode access - special access to let the

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 5/16/07, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please(spammersareevil)cygwin.com wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:32:10PM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote: one of them (for Intel Mac processors with Dual Cores in some stores) there was a driver that would not allow Cygwin to talk to the

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-15 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Linda Walsh cygwin at tlinx dot org wrote: Hi, I don't claim to know what is going on, but I'm using a dual-core system and haven't noticed the problems you are having, but my processors are Intel Dual Core. That shouldn't make a difference I wouldn't think. Joseph Kowalski wrote: 1)

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Hi, I don't claim to know what is going on, but I'm using a dual-core system and haven't noticed the problems you are having, but my processors are Intel Dual Core. That shouldn't make a difference I wouldn't think. Joseph Kowalski wrote: 1) Windows XP, fully updated; 2) Visual Studio .NET

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-10 Thread William Sutton
I'm running Cygwin, Windows XP professiona 2002 SP2, and Norton AntiVirus (with the firewall turned off) without problems on an Intel Core2 Duo 2.13 GHz system. -- William Sutton On Thu, 10 May 2007, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:07:20AM -0400, Christopher Faylor

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-10 Thread Joseph Kowalski
I think the following sad story should shed a little light on this issue. I'm attempting to use cygwin to provide the UNIX-like build environment to build Java SE on a DualCore system. Relevant configuration details: AMD X2 5200+ Asus M2NPV-VM 2 Gb ECC memory (std. clocks) I'm

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-10 Thread René Berber
Joseph Kowalski wrote: I'm attempting to use cygwin to provide the UNIX-like build environment to build Java SE on a DualCore system. Relevant configuration details: AMD X2 5200+ [snip] With this configuration, I get random can not fork: Resource temporarily unavailable errors when

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-10 Thread Chee Kiang Goh
Good day, all, Still no luck trying out Larry's Suggestion... my system is a bit edgy and unstable at the moment... is gonna be a long re-installation ... : fortunately I am trying this @ home and only have to live with my wife's complaints. After reading more of the current and past postings,

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-10 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Rene Berber wrote: My problem, I think, is a bad network driver... or at least it takes too long for it to start up. The network card is surely completely different from what you use (an Intel PRO/1000 MT with driver from Intel. Don't be too sure. The configuration I described also has an

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-10 Thread René Berber
Joseph Kowalski wrote: [snip] Don't be too sure. The configuration I described also has an Intel PRO/1000 MT with driver from Intel (via Microsoft). Another experiment I didn't mention is I loaded the same software stack on to another machine with a single core processor (Shuttle FX41). It

DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-09 Thread Chee Kiang Goh
Good day, all, I just installed Cygwin on my machine to the latest and now facing problem with building applications (gcc,systemc,mpfr,gnomedesktop,etc). Searched and tried several suggestions on the mailing list(replaced with latest dev version of cygwin1.dll, base dist, rebase, make -j1, stop

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 05/09/2007, Chee Kiang Goh wrote: Searched and tried several suggestions on the mailing list(replaced with latest dev version of cygwin1.dll, base dist, rebase, make -j1, stop the zone alarm, avira's antivir etc). Always, I get messages similar to the below example with messages about

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-09 Thread Chee Kiang Goh
Good day, Larry, Will give it a try. Thanks! This setting will kinda leave me abit unprotected from the rest of the internet... :P Shall be offline when trying... Looking forward nevertheless to a better co-existence solution with WindowXP/DualCoreCPU. This feature had been the primary reason

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:54:36PM +0800, Chee Kiang Goh wrote: Looking forward nevertheless to a better co-existence solution with WindowXP/DualCoreCPU. This feature had been the primary reason why I stick to cygwin over the years : FYI, there is no better coexistence solution contemplated.

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2007-05-09 Thread David Arnstein
- Forwarded message from Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PTC, although, you have to wonder why we'd have to accommodate virus checkers or firewalls, which are supposed to be unobtrusive. - End forwarded message - Is there a particular software firewall that does not

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-09 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:07:20AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:54:36PM +0800, Chee Kiang Goh wrote: Looking forward nevertheless to a better co-existence solution with WindowXP/DualCoreCPU. This feature had been the primary reason why I stick to cygwin over the

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2007-05-09 Thread Shankar Unni
David Arnstein wrote: Is there a particular software firewall that does not interfere with Cygwin? That's a bit of an open-ended question.. I use Sunbelt (formerly Kerio) personal firewall. I turn off most of its features HIPS, NIPS, ... and Cygwin applications work OK for me, most of the