Re: [Condor-users] 64-bit Windows binaries?

["Timothy St. Clair" <tstclair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We've discussed many times, but there are no plans for native 64-bit
builds at this time.  

Cheers,
Tim

On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 11:34 -0700, Bob Mortensen wrote:
> Does anyone have, or are there any plans to produce, a native 64-bit
> binary build for Windows?
> 
>  
> 
> We’ve been having “random problems” running the 32-bit Condor binaries
> on 64-bit Windows OS’s. I’ve recently seen some discussions regarding
> other 32-bit applications that have similar problems and they have
> been attributed to bugs in the 32-bit “Windows on Windows” emulation. 
> 
>  
> 
> To quote someone else: “ Combing forums, we believe the culprit to be
> bugs in Microsoft WoW (Windows on Windows for 32-bit emulation on
> 64-bit OS) where preemptive threading is not handled well. Problems
> included hangs, zombie processes, and file system failures. The
> problems occur a bit more frequently on Vista and 7 than on XP we
> think due to different memory allocation methods, but the problems can
> be seen on all 64-bit Windows versions.”
> 
>  
> 
> This describes what we are seeing pretty well.
> 
>  
> 
> So, native 64-bit binaries anyone?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Mortensen
> 
> 
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