On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:03:12 -0400
Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > I'm going to submit a PR shortly then, this is the problem I was
> > refering to:
> > 
> > Threaded applications (Firefox, Galeon, Konqueror, XMMS, etc) tend to
> > hang, this happens more frequently when I have some CPU intensive jobs
> > running at the same time, like 'build.sh'. The window where the
> > application is running hangs and does not respond to anything. Running
> > 'kill <pid>' does not have any effect, however running 'kill -9 <pid>'
> > makes the CPU shoot up to 100% and a few seconds later the whole
> > system freezes completely.
> > 
> > Has anyone else experienced exactly the same symptoms?
> 
> I didn't see anything like this for ages and I'm using an U10 for all my
> daily work. But I'm running pretty recent -current.
> What I see is what Martin described - seemingly random crashes in
> threaded applications with ( usually mangled ) stack traces that end
> somewhere in libpthread. Running low on memory seems to make it worse,
> some applications almost inevitably crash when they get swapped back in.
> 
> have fun
> Michael
> 

OK, I'll build the most recent NetBSD-current and see if I can trigger a
complete system hang, then I'll submit a PR.