Call for thread testers

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Gordon Tetlow wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:05:28AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > This is kind of an unconventional call for help.  As we approach the
> > release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and
> > stability of our new threading packages.  So, I'm looking for people
> > to volunteer to go out and put some of the thread-capable enterprise
> > and desktop packages to the test.  Packages that I would most like
> > to see are:
> > 
> > Apache 2
> > BIND 9
> > OpenOffice
> > Mozilla
> > KDE desktop + Konq
> > Java 1.3/1.4 + Tomcat/etc
> > MySQL
> > Others?
> 
> I've found that privoxy is a good program to test threads. It does
> alot of network io too. ports/www/privoxy. Just point your web browser
> to use it.
> 
> > The questions that I would like to have answered are:
> > 
> > Does it take advantage of pthreads
> Yes.
> > Does it work with libkse and libthr
> Sort of.
> > Does it operate correctly
> libthr: tends to segfault (sig11). Occasional DNS resolution issues.
> libkse: tends to segfault (sig11), I've gotten my box to crash
> 	once too (BAD!).  ^C still doesn't kill the process. 
> 	Occasional DNS resolution issues. Here's the output from the
> 	console:
> 
> Aug 27 10:22:41 Privoxy(134991872) Request: images.slashdot.org/greendot.gif
> Aug 27 10:22:41 Privoxy(134979584) Request: images.slashdot.org/pix.gif
> Aug 27 10:22:46 Privoxy(135041024) Error: could not resolve hostname images.slashdot.org
> ^^^^--- This is bad, I have no problems resolving this normally.
> ^CAug 27 10:22:56 Privoxy(135163904) Info: exiting by signal 2 .. bye

How old is your kernel?  SCHED_ULE or SCHED_4BSD?

It could be that name resolution is giving it problems because
it's not thread-safe (in libc)...

-- 
Dan Eischen