named and KSE
Andre Guibert de Bruet
andy at siliconlandmark.com
Sun Oct 24 23:32:02 PDT 2004
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> This SMP 5.3-STABLE system updated yesterday acts as a resolver for a
> bunch of package clients. I just got this message in the logs:
>
> Oct 25 01:45:00 <daemon.warn> pointyhat named[281]: *** POKED TIMER ***
>
> This comes from contrib/bind9/lib/isc/timer.c:
>
> /*
> * This is a temporary (probably) hack to fix a bug on tru64 5.1
> * and 5.1a. Sometimes, pthread_cond_timedwait() doesn't actually
> * return when the time expires, so here, we check to see if
> * we're 15 seconds or more behind, and if we are, we signal
> * the dispatcher. This isn't such a bad idea as a general purpose
> * watchdog, so perhaps we should just leave it in here.
> */
>
> and suggests it could be a threading bug.
Just another data point: I'm seeing this on my home network's name
resolver. It is an SMP machine running CURRENT w/SCHED_4BSD.
FreeBSD bling.home 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Oct 22 15:04:44
EDT 2004 root at bling.home:/usr/CURRENT/sys/i386/compile/BLING i386
Regards,
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