On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Martin Husemann wrote:

> It's sometimes a bit hard to figure out how to fix the application properly,
> but you can't blame that on the OS or libpthread.
>
> The only thread related bugs not in this league are the kernel panics.

Only? I've upgraded most of my computers to current, with the
intention of hacking on some pthreaded applications, but the kernel
panics have checked my ambition.

> I only
> see the SMP ones myself, there are reports of one not SMP related remrunqueue
> panic, which is quite new. That's all. For me it runs rock solid on all
> machines not having "options MULTIPROCESSOR" in their kernel config.

The frustrating thing is, SMP works great with non-threaded things,
like "make -j2" and "netscape7", so I'm loathe to do that.

Frederick