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