RE: Problems with ssh/scp/sftp on a dual core Dell Latitude D820

["Steve Baldwin" <stbaldwin at multiservice dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Dave Korn
> Sent: Saturday, 27 May 2006 4:04 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Problems with ssh/scp/sftp on a dual core Dell Latitude D820
> 
> On 26 May 2006 18:54, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> > Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >> Chris Richardson, le Fri 26 May 2006 06:22:32 -0700, a écrit :
> >>> Does anyone have a fix for this?
> >>
> >> Disable the second core.  Cygwin seems to not work very well with SMP
> >> systems.
> >
> >
> > That's a sweeping statement that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.  Plenty of
> > folks use Cygwin quite successfully on SMP systems.  I've used it very
> > successfully on dual processor machines and hyper-threaded machines.
> > There have been some reports recently of ssh problems on dual-core
> > machines but that's hardly "Cygwin".  Indeed, if you look at the stack
> > trace that Chris sent, his problem was outside of the Cygwin DLL.
> 
> 
>   It was outside the ssh exe as well; the SEGV was from trying to fetch an
> instruction from unmapped space.
> 
>   As to what to do about it: the error_start setting in $CYGWIN might come
> in
> useful for tracking down what's going on here.
> 
I'm not sure if it is the same problem, but I was having problems with
Cygwin on my new Dell D820.  I uninstalled some (non-cygwin) software and it
started working.  I recently had an email from someone else with similar
issues and passed on my experience.  They found the culprit to be the
Embassy Trust Suite (or whatever its called - the software for the
fingerprint reader).  Getting rid of that allowed cygwin to work normally.

HTH,

Steve



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