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RE: hostid patch
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 10:52:12 +0100
- Subject: RE: hostid patch
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:04:43AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 11:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> Three runs, two different results:
> >
> >I count three runs, three result there.
>
> Hmm. You're right. I thought the last two hostids were the same but
> they obviously weren't.
>
> >Interestingly, the PSN was different on every case..
>
> Running under strace the PSN stayed the same for a long time. I thought
> it was going to be one of those "runs fine under strace" scenarios.
>
> >Is this a real box, or VMWare / bochs etc?
>
> It's an FreeBSD box running VMWare, running linux. I'm running
> cygwin under
> wine on linux. I can't see how that could be a problem. :-)
>
> >How many cpus are in it?
>
> cygcheck attached. Hmm. Cygcheck doesn't say how many CPUs, does it?
>
> /proc/cpuinfo attached, too.
>
> Two CPUs. Different steppings for each. The Dell BIOS kindly informs
> me of that fact on each reboot.
I neglected to set the Thread affinity when I got the CPU serial number, so
it gets a different number for each CPU. As to why the last two values are
off by five - I can't explain that without delving into the sources. I can't
do that until I install Cygwin on my new machine.
Chris