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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:15:16PM -0700, Stewart Midwinter wrote:
>From: Michael Brand <cygwin <at> brand.scso.com>
>>I disabled one of the CPUs on my dual-CPU Xeon, and everything started working
>well, so I guess this is a dual-cpu problem.
>
>> I tried running my scripts on several dual-CPU Xeons (different
>> computer models, but all of them HPs), ... snip ...
>> it generally crashes an hour or two later, at the most.
>
>Joining the party a *little* late here ... :-)
>
>I too have a dual-CPU Xeon made by HP and it too has a problem with a
>tcsh script hanging when it runs for a long time (it's a polling
>script).  We suspect that it might have to do with forking, but are
>unable to test that theory at this time.
>
>Apart from disabling the 2nd CPU (which kind of defeats the purpose of
>having such a machine!), did you ever find any other solution?

Yes.  Upgrade from Cygwin 1.5.7.

cgf

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