Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-18 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Linda Walsh 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 above). "At the moment?"

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Joseph Kowalski wrote: Linda Walsh 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) Window

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 5/16/07, Christopher Faylor 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 device >like UNIX does because it did not have "Hyperviser"

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, Oliver Walsh wrote: >>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

RE: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-16 Thread Oliver Walsh
>>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 dualcore

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-15 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Linda Walsh 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) Windows XP, fully updated; 2

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 Pr

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

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

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 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 tryi

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 worki

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 wrot

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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 ti

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 ov

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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 interf

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.

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 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