sample programs hanging

Hello,
Our application uses beepcore-c version 0.1 and was encountering
problems on certain platforms (machine 2 below). Hence we ran the
sample programs (echoserv & bing) and found some issues. We didn't
catch these before as we were testing on machines 3, 4 and 5.

Version 1 test programs
>> echoserv localhost 10234
>> bing -c 1 localhost 10234

Version 2 test programs
>> beepd -f beepd.cfg
>> beepng -a test -c 1 -f beepng.cfg -p 10289 localhost

All machines have Solaris 8 except for the last
                                                Patch     Works
    No.CPUs Memory Platform                      Level   0.1  0.2
1:  1       512    SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine  18       No   dodgy
2:  1       256    SUNW,Ultra-5_10              15       No   unknown
3:  4       1024   SUNW,Ultra-4                 15       Yes  Yes
4:  2       1024   SUNW,Ultra-250               16       Yes  Yes
5:  1       768    SUNW,UltraAX-i2              (Sol 9)  Yes  Yes

I see from mailings that version 1 is unstable particularly with
respect to the threading:
  http://lists.codefactory.se/pipermail/idxp/2002-February/000053.html
What happens is the echoserv and bing process hang, the output from
a truss of the running processes show both are in a poll()/yield()
loop. This happens on machine 2 above.

Tests with version 2 indicate a slight improvement in stability
but still the test programs (beepd & beepng) hang after a number of
iterations on machine 1 above. When i say 'dodgy' above i mean the
following:
 - I start the server
 - I run the client program 10 times... it works
 - I run the client program 500 times (using -c option)... it works
 - I run the client program 500 times... it hangs
 - I switch between doing a truss of the server pid and the client
   pid and eventually the processes are kicked started into
   completing.
 - i can continue on...

Has anyone else seen problems with beepcore-c like this? I presume
upgrading to version 2 would be recommended but this is not as stable
as i would like it to be.

Andy


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