Re: Lockup with -current via SSH

"Nathan J. Williams" <[email protected]> 24 Feb 2003 21:31:05 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.current,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
Organization Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> writes:

> "Ken Seefried" <[email protected]> writes:
> > Adam K Kirchhoff writes:
> > > 	In my experience, -cuurent does not play well with SMP and
> > > threads.  Any threaded application will lock up my machine solid.
> > 
> > With all due respect, that's not an answer.  Either we are interested
> > in identifying and fixing SMP bugs, or we are not interested in SMP.
> > I'm reporting a problem, am interested in providing any additional
> > information I can, and looking for additional guidance as to how to
> > tackle debugging this further.

There's really nothing to debug as yet. It's broken in well-understood
ways. I just haven't gotten to fixing yet, because the fixes will
be... involved. Fixing it "properly" may require chucking our entire
scheduler out the window and replacing it with something else.

        - Nathan