From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 17:05:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DC916A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B63E43FE9 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h7S05Otp013227; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:05:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:05:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Gordon Tetlow In-Reply-To: <20030827235853.GH695@roark.gnf.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for thread testers X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: deischen@freebsd.org List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:05:26 -0000 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