>> so, i could run NetBSD on the single processor machines, but i'm not
>> up-to-date regarding things like the almost famous 'sleep forever'
>> bug...
>
> My Ultra5 and 10's with 2.0.2 and -current work perfectly stable *as 
> long
> as I don't use native pthreads*.
>
> With recent 2.0 and -current kernels, paging out thread-using programs
> doesn't crash the whole machine anymore, but the processes still crash 
> in
> interesting ways (see the other thread that's going on here).
>
> From a similar discussion a few weeks ago (in -sparc?), this seemend to
> be a generic problem on all NetBSD hardware variants: swapping threaded
> apps leads to app crashes.   Sparc and Sparc64 had "full system 
> crashes",
> but *this* is fixed, as far as my tests went.
>
> For those apps that insist on threads (clamav-milter), I use pkgsrc 
> pth,
> and haven't seen a clamav crash since.  Using pth is a bit tricky, as
> the threads include files collide...
>
> (If this is all an old hat and I just need to get a more up-to-date
> thread lib: just tell me so)

lucky me, i run clamav in combination with postfix -- or is 
clamav-milter crashing not related to itself than rather crashing of 
clamav?

cheers,

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