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 -- 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/
