Multithreaded program crashes on SMP (HT enabled) machine

[Doug White]

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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Adi Pircalabu wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a multithreaded application ported on FreeBSD 5.3 which crashes
> in a minute or less if hyperthreading in enabled. Without HT there is no
> problem.
> How and where should I start to investigate the problem?
>

Can you expalin "crash"? Do you get any messages?

> The backtrace:
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x2819631b in pthread_testcancel () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
> #1  0x2818e902 in pthread_mutexattr_init () from
> /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1 #2  0x00000000 in ?? ()

This looks like a thread library mismatch.

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