Re: kern/43199: read(2) returns bad size in multithreaded programs

[Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost>]

Hi,

it would be possible to try it on 5.x, but that will take some time, 
because I have to reinstall the system and it is dooing some other 
productive things for us ...
I will come back with the results as soon as I can - I think something 
around two or three weeks - I'm very busy at the moment ...

W. Stukenbrock

Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:

> Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > <...>
> >
> > I'm not realy confirm with the multi-thread implementation in the 
> > NetBSD-kernel. But I looks to me that the problem is bound to some 
> > aspects of parallel work on multiple threads.
> > There has been no problem up to now if we run the backup of all systems 
> > and filesystems sequential, but this is not even a sollution for a work 
> > around, because that takes too much time ....
>
> Do you have a possibility to try to reproduce this on NetBSD 5.x?
> The 5.x and newer are fundamentally different in respect to SMP.