Re: Dual core

Dennis Thrysøe wrote:

>> Maybe a network driver (because when you expand a node in repobrowser,
>> it contacts the repository).
>
> Any special network communications. I would assume simple TCP?

Yes, simple TCP communications.

>> Media key, TSVN - maybe video driver, network driver, ...
>
> Yeah, I was considering those two and the audio driver. But I suppose
> TSVN isn't playing any audio when I expand the node in repo browser.
> Hmm. What about the plink dialog? Does that attempt to play a sound.

I don't think so. Except maybe the control itself. You know like the
explorer does when you navigate through folders (a soft 'klick').

> Another odd perspective on this issue is that I have encountered
> something similar for other operations with TSVN (like checkout). But
> this is fixable by pressing ctrl+alt+delete and then escape to take me
> back to the desktop. The repo-browser situation isn't affected by this
> trick.

Do you have a software firewall installed? Maybe that one locks up -
such firewalls usually have some driver-like code and digg deep into the
system. That would explain why TSVN is mostly affected: Subversion uses
some special http commands which might confuse a firewall.

> So all in all I'm having a real problem figuring out what could be wrong
> here... Identifying the misbehaving driver doesn't seem easy either, so
> I guess (assuming all instances of the similar problems have same cause)
> the key may very well be to what TSVN does. After pressing
> ctrl+alt+delete and alt+tab some times I get the plink dialog *below*
> the repo-browser - maybe that's a hint of something?

Could be. But plink is a normal app too, running in user space. So in
that case I would suspect a conflict with encryption (firewall? driver
using OpenSSL/SSH dlls).

> Any kind of debug-logging mode or anything would be interesting. I
> appreciate any help here, since dell isn't too helpful (just occurred
> that there might be some dell software/drivers running in kernel space
> ... hmmm).

If you call Dell support, you have to climb your way up from the guys
dealing with people forgetting to plug connectors in the sockets to the
guys who know the real stuff. That's not easy if sometimes impossible.
And problems with drivers are serious, I don't think you can get that
high up in their 'telephone-chain' :)

Stefan

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