Windows 2003 X64 and Windows 7 X64

[Erik Joelsson]

My experience so far with OS versions is this:

My laptop (lenovo thinkpad 4 cores, maybe 2 years old) windows 7 x64, 
hangs frequently.
Lab machine (HP Proliant DL360 G4p, 4 cores) windows 2003 ia32, hangs 
frequently
Lab machine (older beta hardware, 16 cores) windows 2003 x64, no hangs 
in hudson (not using for manual runs)
Lab machine (newer beta hardware, 64 cores) windows 2008 x64, no hangs 
in hudson or manual runs

Based on this small sample, and assuming 2008 and 7 are basically the 
same, I would say machine size is a bigger factor than OS version, but 
would need more data to say anything real I think.

/Erik

On 2012-10-23 19:18, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> I have been experimenting with using Windows 7 X64 for CYGWIN building rather than Windows 2003 X64.
>
> I have no hard evidence yet, but it seems better. Anti-Virus conflict issues may  still be a problem.
>
> It makes me think that maybe all this effort on Windows 2003 X64 build issues may be wasted, and maybe we
> should consider just changing at least our 64bit builds to Windows 7 X64.
>
> Both the old builds with MKS and the build-infra CYGWIN builds can work there with little to no change.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -kto