Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:47:30 -0500 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: thread issues fixed in 4.5? Message-ID: <BAF363F3-0AA0-11D6-9F41-000502EDE760@shire.net>
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Hi I have been searching the archives for answers on this and have not found anything. I am running 4.2 currently and amplanning on moving to 4.5 FreeBSD. I also use the Roxen webserver (www.roxen.com) and it has a problem with "locking up" when it is compiled to use threads. This happens only when CGIs are being used, and not always, just on some CGI invocations (regardless of the actual CGI). Also, the Apache 2 documentation says that on FreeBSD it uses the old forking method rather than the new Apache threaded model because FreeBSD has some thread problems. It kind of sounds like the source for Apache and Roxen 's problems are related based on the descriptions. I asked about whether a new Roxen release fixed this problem and here was an asnwer " >Any hints or solutions to this problem??? I had hoped that this was >finally solved in 2.2 but it seems to not be. Non of my other thread >aware software seems to have any sorts of problems on FBSD, only >pike/roxen. The main problem is that almost no other thread-using program fork/exec's other programs. Most of the time they're self-contained. Roxen's sort of unique in that regard, and it ends up stressing a part of the threads code that doesn't get used very often. It doesn't make it any easier that the only way to reliably reproduce the bug is to do a "make verify" on a full Pike build; a build takes quite a long time. " Is the Apache 2 problem with FreeBSD threads fixed in the -stable (or to be 4.5) releases? I am trying to plan my new version strategies for a lot of different software pieces I use. thanks Chad chad@shire.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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