On 25 Oct 2006, at 9:02 PM, Raymond Meyer wrote:

> Nevermind SMP, what about threading bugs on sparc64, are they still  
> at large??

As far as I can tell, yes. (Although I admit I've been waiting for  
the now-announced settling of the SMP work to try a new -current  
kernel.) I've just done an update, and the build begins now...

I am becoming quite motivated to work on solving this problem, and  
I've just begun trying to figure out where to start looking. I'm  
figuring this will involve mucking around in kernel code and the  
pthreads library, although I'll admit I haven't looked into the SA or  
threading architecture in NetBSD in general.

Is there anyone out there who has any ideas about what's going wrong?  
I'd appreciate any head starts anyone can give me. Without that, I'll  
just be starting from scratch trying to figure it out. All I know  
right now is that threaded programs seem to die when parts of them  
are paged back in. I'll start there.

- Geoff

(This email address will only work this month:  
oct2006@alldestroying.com )