Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:31:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: named and KSE Message-ID: <20041025022803.T42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <20041025024034.GA25830@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041025024034.GA25830@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > This SMP 5.3-STABLE system updated yesterday acts as a resolver for a > bunch of package clients. I just got this message in the logs: > > Oct 25 01:45:00 <daemon.warn> pointyhat named[281]: *** POKED TIMER *** > > This comes from contrib/bind9/lib/isc/timer.c: > > /* > * This is a temporary (probably) hack to fix a bug on tru64 5.1 > * and 5.1a. Sometimes, pthread_cond_timedwait() doesn't actually > * return when the time expires, so here, we check to see if > * we're 15 seconds or more behind, and if we are, we signal > * the dispatcher. This isn't such a bad idea as a general purpose > * watchdog, so perhaps we should just leave it in here. > */ > > and suggests it could be a threading bug. Just another data point: I'm seeing this on my home network's name resolver. It is an SMP machine running CURRENT w/SCHED_4BSD. FreeBSD bling.home 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Oct 22 15:04:44 EDT 2004 root@bling.home:/usr/CURRENT/sys/i386/compile/BLING i386 Regards, | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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