Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <424AE7CB.5080502@dunslane.net> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:54:19 -0500 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040906 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: apparent scheduler problem References: <4249BCDF.1040409@dunslane.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian Ford wrote: >On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >>Recently after upgrading my installation of Cygwin on XP-Pro, I noticed >>that PostgreSQL started failing one of its regression tests. >> >> >[snip] > > >>The test is for the stats collector, and essentially it does some >>work, waits a couple of seconds in a fairly brain dead busy/wait loop, >>and then checks to see if the stats collector has done the work we >>expect it to have done. >> >> >[snip] > > >>We are wondering if anything is known to have changed in Cygwin recently >>that could account for this. >> >> > >Sounds to me like yet another case of >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html > > That's remarkably ugly :-) Two of us have confirmed that using the latest snapshot DLL fixes the problem for Postgres. When might the fix make it into a release? cheers andrew -- 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/