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