Chuck,
We have a build environment for a reasonably large piece of code that several people could be building at the same time. On a dual 800MHz P3 and even a quad 550MHz box we had no problems, but upgrading to a dual 1.8GHz AMD box improved build times dramatically but the vast majority of builds fail with:
- Microsoft's compiler reporting missing source file. I suspect the environment and/or current working directory is not setup correctly everytime a prcess is created. Rerun make and it works. Very strange.
- Thread activation errors which kill the build and the running shell.
rsync is also unreliable as it regularly hangs, but its unclear if that is related.
I will also investigate providing a box, but that might be the easy part. Providing a test case that does not rely on our code base might be more of a challenge.
David
Chuck McDevitt wrote:
Here at the company I work for, we have one of our developers spending half his time trying to track down this problem, but so far with no luck.
He did find that forcing processor affinity helps avoid the problem, but that's not much of a solution.
I keep trying to convince management to send a hyperthreaded machine that shows the problem to Christopher or Corinna, but they keep nixing the idea (I don't understand why).
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