and what about Google? have you heard of Google?
try a search on
firebird and hyperthreading

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com]On
> Behalf Of Zach Saw
> Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 4:53 PM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] Re: Catastrophic Failures on Hyperthreading machines
>
>
> > > So from this I can conclude -- either IBO or Firebird is not ready
> > > to be ran on HT machines yet (read: IBO/Firebird crashes on HT
> > > machines. I'm not saying it doesn't utilize HT). Anyone else seeing
> > > this problem?
> >
> > this is well known. Search the firebird newsgroup for hyperthreading.
>
> I did... the only thing ever mentioned about HT in firebird newsgroup
> is that it doesn't uses the second thread. Not fatal crashes.
>
> > the server is not equipped for HT - disable it if you want to mount
> FB on a
> > such a machine
>
> On a client's machine, you can never be sure HT is always disabled --
> unless we perform a check to make sure it's disabled before starting,
> and for that matter, every few seconds' interval (in case user chose
> to hibernate and and re-enable HT)...
>
> BTW, Firebird server DID NOT crash when HT was enabled -- the only
> thing that crashed was IBO and its dll (gds32.dll / fbclient.dll).
>
> Firebird Newsgroup never mentioned about HT crashing fbclient.dll /
> gds32.dll. But if you know which thread specifically to look at for
> this report, I'll be more than happy to take a look.
>
> Thanks Alan.
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