X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:50:47 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet Message-ID: <20051230185047.GA15668@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Frier, David wrote: >We have cygwin for running Ab Initio on a Windows 2K Adv server, and >yes, we're in the dreaded h_y_p_e_r-t_h_r_e_a_d_e_d zone. From browsing >the list archives and the kinds of problems people report, I'd say we've >been lucky... except... from time to time our CPU utilization on that >machine just spikes to red levels for no [other] apparent reason. > >My inclination is to turn HT off; the machine is also running SQL Server >which claims to like it but I very much doubt we're getting any huge >benefit from it. > >Interested in the thoughts of the real cygwin cognoscenti, of which I am >most certainly NOT one. You don't have to be a "cygwin cognoscenti" to read the cygwin web site. I'd suggest starting with http://cygwin.com/problems.html . -- 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/