Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

> > On the ZoneLabs message boards I found references to use of tcsh in > > place of bash, that seems to work around the problem as follows: > > > > I wonder what the difference is between bash and tcsh that gives rise to > that idea. Your choice of shell shouldn't affect your CPU usage; and if

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brett Serkez on 1/1/2006 1:01 PM: > > On the ZoneLabs message boards I found references to use of tcsh in > place of bash, that seems to work around the problem as follows: > I wonder what the difference is between bash and tcsh that gi

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

I've not seen any particular difference using Cygwin between hyper-threaded and non-hyper-threaded CPUs. I have seen issues with bash and sshd consuming 100% CPU for periods of time on both, which may or may not be related to ZoneAlarm. You can better identify the specific process by starting the

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:44:08PM -0500, Frier, David wrote: > So if I have a two-physical-processor system which HT fools Windoze > into thinking is a quad, then turning off HT is not really going to > help me? Help with what, the cpu spikes? You could try it and see. You could also see if the

RE: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

> From: Samuel Thibault > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 3:13 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet > > Frier, David, le Fri 30 Dec 2005 15:44:08 -0500, a écrit : > > So if I have a two-physical-processor system which HT fools

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

Frier, David, le Fri 30 Dec 2005 15:44:08 -0500, a écrit : > So if I have a two-physical-processor system which HT fools Windoze into > thinking is a quad, then turning off HT is not really going to help me? I'd say it won't help, indeed ; to avoid troubles, you will probably have to disable your

RE: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet Hi, Frier, David, le Fri 30 Dec 2005 13:29:55 -0500, a écrit : > we're in the dreaded h_y_p_e_r-t_h_r_e_a_d_e_d zone. Eeeh, you just mean multi-processor zone. Hyper-threading is just a special case of multi-processor and

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

Hi, Frier, David, le Fri 30 Dec 2005 13:29:55 -0500, a écrit : > we're in the dreaded h_y_p_e_r-t_h_r_e_a_d_e_d zone. Eeeh, you just mean multi-processor zone. Hyper-threading is just a special case of multi-processor and has the same issues. Regards, Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 02:07:37PM -0500, Frier, David wrote: >Ordinarily I would not make the following reply on-list, but you seem >insistent that I must, so here goes. Not only am I insistent, I sent you to a page which talks about it in bold letters. I'm not sure why you need to even mention

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om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 13:51 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Frier, David wrote: >We have cygwin for running Ab Initio on a Win

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

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... exce

Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

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 s