Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20040614103556.00adfe78@mail.actron.com> X-Sender: nsomos AT mail DOT actron DOT com Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:46:04 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Neil Somos Subject: prime95 adversely affects update on w2k Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I am writing in the hope of saving others some grief. Prime95 (http://mersenne.org/) soaks up all available background CPU cycles while trying to help find large mersenne primes. Apparently when it is running, it prevents some or all of the postinstall activity from completing. (On windows 2000 anyway) It is a simple matter to temporarily disable prime95 while install/updates are taking place, provided one knows that this is important. Many many thanks for the resizeable setup window. neal -- 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/