I'm running the experimental glibc with NPTL just fine on my tsunami, no stability issues so far (it's been several months).
Mike On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:37:36PM -0500, Stan Lewis wrote: > If someone wants to give these packages a whirl I've put them up at: > > http://gashcrumb.homelinux.org/tmp > > the .debs are in "debs" and the patched libc6 source package + test is > in "source". When I built them I just did a "dpkg -i *" and it seemed to go > alright, though I don't think you'd normally need to install the debug and > profile libraries. Note that locales and locales-all showed up as ready to > upgrade after installing these, I've gone and upgraded them and haven't > noticed any problems so far. I've also since removed the debug/profiled > packages from my install. > > cheers, > > Stan > > On Tue 20 February 2007, Thomas Evans wrote: > > Sorry to confuse 'unstable' with 'not fixed'. > > > > Lots of zombies often led to 'unstable' for me... > > > > ...tom > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Uwe Schindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'Thomas Evans'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Stan Lewis'" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [email protected] Sent: 2/20/07 5:07 PM > > Subject: RE: Hello! (and zombie processes...) > > > > > Not cool that the experimental glibc doesn't fix this... > > > > Stan said that the machine became very unstable. I run experimental glibc > > (2.3.999 and for a short time 2.5-0exp3 build by the debian developer > > aurelien on my machine) and I had no crash and no zombies. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: "Stan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Sent: 2/20/07 3:08 PM > > > Subject: Hello! (and zombie processes...) > > > > > > Hey all! > > > > > > I've just gotten a Compaq XP1000 last Friday and have been working on > > > getting > > > it set up to do audio work. I've run into the same problem that I guess > > > a few people have with zombie processes getting created every time a > > > thread exits, and I've tried a few ways of getting this sorted out on > > > this box, including installing the version of libc6.1 from expiremental. > > > That didn't > > > go so well, this machine became way unstable. I tried sticking with just > > > what's in sarge, but the kernel version is just to old to get decent low > > > latencies with the jack audio server. > > > > > > So I've managed to get a build of the glibc-2.3.6.ds1 source package with > > > the > > > patch that fixes the zombie process problem (can't remember whose e-mail > > > that > > > was in) built and running here on this box I'm setting up. It fixes the > > > test > > > code that was submitted for bug 325600, and I'm waiting for all of KDE to > > > download to see if any zombie processes show up then. > > > > > > Anyway, I've noticed that there's mails in the list as recent as > > > December, so > > > I figured I'd throw these out there, if anyone's interested in either the > > > source package, .debs or the steps required to rebuild the source .deb, > > > let > > > me know! > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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