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Date:      Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:47:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        rob@debank.tv, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2-Release and Clamd 0.90 with libpthread.so
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Martin Blapp wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>>> Running ktrace with libc_r or libthr I can't see a single call to fork().
>>> Is ktrace lying to me ? Why do I only see fork()s with libpthread ?
>> 
>> The kse upcalls might look like forks to ktrace?
>> 
>
> That could be. Is it easy to fix this for ktrace ?

I don't know...

> Anyway, that still doesn't solve the problem for me, since
> clamd with libpthreads is extremly CPU hungry and is slow.
>
> I really miss something to profile like strace on solaris to
> see where it spends most CPU cycles. The problem is not that
> it doesn't work, the problem is that it works far too slow.
>
> Do you have any ideas ?

Yes, fix clamd so it doesn't fork() without doing an exec().
POSIX says that behavior is undefined when threaded applications
fork() and call non-async-signal-safe functions.

-- 
DE



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