Cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.

Tue Apr 6 22:27:00 GMT 2004

I upgraded, and it didn't help.
under pdksh:
CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
Memory fault (core dumped)
CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
Test Failed......Path is empty
This is with Cygwin1.dll 1.5.9 (build time 2004年03月18日 23:05) 
from www.cygwin.com/setup
Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>
04/06/2004 05:40 PM
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 To: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt@ABINITIO.COM>, cygwin@cygwin.com
 cc: 
 Subject: Re: Cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded 
machines.
At 05:17 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote:
>I've been running into a lot of problems with Cygwin on hyperthreaded 
>machines, when those machines are heavily loaded.
>>For example, if I run this script:
>>#! /bin/ksh
>mypath=$(pwd)
>while [[ ! -z $mypath ]]
>do
> mypath=$(pwd)
> if [[ -z $mypath ]]
> then
> echo "Test Failed......Path is empty" 
> fi
>done
>>in one shell, while running a large make in another, it will fail in a 
>variety of ways.
>Under pdksh, it sometimes exits the test because "mypath" is empty, or it 

>core dumps, or hangs, or gives error messages.
>Under bash, it hangs, crashes, or gives error messages (haven't seen it 
>exit the loop, but I didn't try long with bash).
>By "hang", I mean the shell stops using CPU time, and become 
>non-responsive, and can only be stopped by killing the process.
>The problem does not occur if hyperthreading is turned off.
>>I've attached the output from cygcheck.
>>>Here are some example runs:
>>#####Using pd KSH:
>>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>Memory fault (core dumped)
>>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>1861 [exiting thread] ksh 3260 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread 
>activation
>>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>Memory fault (core dumped)
>>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
>Memory fault (core dumped)
>>CMCDEVITT> test.ksh
> 2259 [exiting thread] ksh 2644 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread 
>activation
>>#####Using BASH:
>>CMCDEVITT> bash test.ksh
>3 [exiting thread] bash 3752 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread activation
>test.ksh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Please update to Cygwin 1.5.9 and/or try a recent snapshot and report
back.
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