nenad wrote: <snip>
> > I have tried to find information about this problem but have ended up short. I > have seen a lot of complaints lately on the mailing list about cygwin being > slow, more than I can remember ever before. Maybe this is all related. > > I have used cygwin pretty much daily since its earliest days in the mid > nineties > but never seen it behave like this before. The reason I'm suspecting the dual > core architecture is because that is the main difference between these two > machines. The rest of the programs I have pretty much just transferred from > the > old laptop to the new one. > > Any help would be appreciated. If other people on the list are able to run > Core > 2 Duo systems without any problems at least I would know that it has nothing > to > do with dual core hyper-threading issues. But I still need to find out why > suddenly cygwin is so much slower and actually crashes my computer several > times > a week. Cygwin cannot crash your computer. It's a user-level program. It doesn't run in kernel mode. If you're having problems with your computer crashing, you need to look at things like bad drivers and buggy anti-virus, anti- spyware, and other such programs that do have kernel-mode access. You'll be spinning your wheels if you spend much effort trying to resolve this kind of problem using Cygwin. FWIW, I've used Cygwin on a Dell 690 with 2 dual-core CPUs plus hyper-threading since mid-January. I don't see any problems doing so. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
