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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,

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