The following reply was made to PR kern/36008; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36008: Remaining pthread problems after newlock2 merge
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:12:48 +0000

 I can't reproduce this issue on a dual-CPU i386 machine. It's running stock
 -current: NetBSD 4.99.16 (SPANNERS) #2: Wed Mar 21 18:19:43 UTC 2007
 
 The package I'm building is pkgsrc/lang/perl5, and I'm running the tests as
 root.
 
 DISTNAME=       perl-5.8.8
 PKGREVISION=    4
 
 # grep ext/thr log
 ext/threads/shared/t/0nothread............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/av_refs..............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/av_simple............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/blessed..............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/cond.................ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/disabled.............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/hv_refs..............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/hv_simple............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/no_share.............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/shared_attr..........ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/sv_refs..............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/sv_simple............ok
 ext/threads/shared/t/wait.................ok
 ext/threads/t/basic.......................ok
 ext/threads/t/end.........................ok
 ext/threads/t/join........................ok
 ext/threads/t/libc........................ok
 ext/threads/t/list........................ok
 ext/threads/t/problems....................ok
 ext/threads/t/stress_cv...................ok
 ext/threads/t/stress_re...................ok
 ext/threads/t/stress_string...............ok
 ext/threads/t/thread......................ok
 [...]
 Failed 1 test script out of 966, 99.90% okay.
 
 The failed test is:
 
 lib/Benchmark.............................#   Failed test 'slowfast should be less than or equal to zero, and >= -100'
 #   in ../lib/Benchmark.t at line 335.
 # slowfast -400
 FAILED at test 126
 
 I'll update pkgsrc and try again. Are you sure that your thread library and
 kernel are up to date? Can you see something that I am doing differently?
 
 Thanks,
 Andrew