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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:40:10 -0400
To: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt AT ABINITIO DOT COM>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.
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At 05:17 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote:
>I've been running into a lot of problems with Cygwin on hyperthreaded 
>machines, when those machines are heavily loaded.
>
>For example, if I run this script:
>
>#! /bin/ksh
>mypath=$(pwd)
>while [[ ! -z $mypath ]]
>do
> mypath=$(pwd)
> if [[ -z $mypath ]]
> then
>  echo "Test Failed......Path is empty" 
> fi
>done
>
>in one shell, while running a large make in another, it will fail in a 
>variety of ways.
>Under pdksh, it sometimes exits the test because "mypath" is empty, or it 
>core dumps, or hangs, or gives error messages.
>Under bash, it hangs, crashes, or gives error messages (haven't seen it 
>exit the loop, but I didn't try long with bash).
>By "hang", I mean the shell stops using CPU time, and become 
>non-responsive, and can only be stopped by killing the process.
>The problem does not occur if hyperthreading is turned off.
>
>I've attached the output from cygcheck.
>
>
>Here are some example runs:
>
>#####Using pd KSH:
>
>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>Memory fault (core dumped)
>
>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>1861 [exiting thread] ksh 3260 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread 
>activation
>
>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>Memory fault (core dumped)
>
>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>Memory fault (core dumped)
>
>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>   2259 [exiting thread] ksh 2644 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread 
>activation
>
>#####Using BASH:
>
>CMCDEVITT> bash test.ksh
>3 [exiting thread] bash 3752 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread activation
>test.ksh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable


Please update to Cygwin 1.5.9 and/or try a recent snapshot and report
back.


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