Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:39:22 +0100 From: "ROGIER MULHUIJZEN" <MULHUIJZEN@PZH.NL> To: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads Message-ID: <s88345ce.036@smtp.pzh.nl>
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>OK, with everyones help (well, waiting for the right time of day ;-)),
I
>was able to reproduce this. The initial threads last active time was
>not getting initialized to a sane value, causing negative
computations
>of the threads timeslice depending on what time of day it was. Funny
>thing was that I added this change several times, but each time I
somehow
>convinced myself that it wasn't needed.
>Try this patch - you may have to hand apply it as my sources are not
>yet up to date with the last round of changes that Jason made.
>Dan Eischen
>eischen@vigrid.com
Ah! That explains why I couldn't reproduce the trouble I had with gFTP
(about which I mailed a few days ago). I had done some hacking in GTK's
source to make it all work (sleep(0) and what not), and after taking out
everything I had added, it still worked.
Well phase of the moon wasn't even that far off! =)
DocWilco
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