Re: Mail gateway stuck again?

Can you generate a testcase which does not use postgres? It should be
possible with just stdio.file/stdio.buffer, right? It could also be a
kernel bug...

Arne

On 01/05/15 10:05, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> On 12/16/14 17:39, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>>> Anyway, I just tested the threading problem on 8.0.
>>> Comparable (fatal) results.
> 
> Arne Goedeke wrote:
>> What exactly does that mean? Is there a threading bug in pike 8 or is
>> there a threading bug in the new postgres module?
> 
> In this case it means that there is a threading bug in Pike 8.
> The new postgres module has been performing quite admirably for the
> past four weeks in various production systems.  Looks stable.
> 
> I tried rewriting the module slightly to fold back threads into
> the backend when idle.  During that process, I ran into some fundamental
> threading wierdness in Pike 8.x
> Since there is no cmod in play here, and the changes are in pike
> code only, the problem must be in Pike itself.
> 
> However, in an effort to dig out the bug in Pike, I compiled Pike
> with various debugging options; which resulted in inconsistent
> erratic behaviour (even stranger than the original problem), which,
> to add insult to injury, even varies depending on the debugging
> level applied.
>