Subject: Re: threading + swapping issues
To: None <sigsegv@rambler.ru>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/19/2005 13:19:34
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Hello,

> Does anyone know if the problems attributes to threaded processes 
> being swapped to disk are affecting other ports? In particular on my 
> i386 machine I notice that threaded applications tend to freeze when 
> the machine is swapping and need to be killed manually. Is this the 
> same bug or something else?
>
Last thing I heard was that this is actually two bugs - one 
sparc/sparc64-specific in the kernel which causes panics sometimes, 
another platform-independent one in libpthread which can cause 
everything between lockups, segfaults and zombies.

have fun
Michael
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