From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 17 23: 4:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA22114C57 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archer@lucky.net) Received: from 207-172-201-100.s37.as2.xnb.nj.dialup.rcn.com ([207.172.201.100] helo=unknown.nowhere.org) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12ASfO-0007cD-00; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:03:03 -0500 Received: (from archer@localhost) by unknown.nowhere.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA31397; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 01:25:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from archer) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 01:25:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001180625.BAA31397@unknown.nowhere.org> From: Alexander Litvin To: "Daniel M. Eischen" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads X-Newsgroups: unknown.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <388308FC.21812070@vigrid.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4-19991113 ("No Labels") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <388308FC.21812070@vigrid.com> you wrote: > 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 [patch skipped] Yep, that seems to be it. No moon-dependent irregularities ;) Thanks! --- I really hate this damned machine I wish that they would sell it. It never does quite what I want But only what I tell it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message