On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 00:50 -0600, LaMont Jones wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:45:36PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: bind9 > > Version: 1:9.4.1-P1-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Might be minor; I'm not sure what the significance is. > > > > Since this morning my logs show frequent entries like > > Sep 2 17:03:24 corn named[3794]: *** POKED TIMER *** > > > > named appears to continue to run and work. > > This is the comment above the code that generates that log record: > /* > * 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. > */ > > I expect that the warning is likely to turn into something more > descriptive than it is to go away. > > lamont
Thanks for tracking that down. So it sounds as if the message means something is failing to return, and the significance depends on what that operation is. I suppose it could be failing to return because something is really slow (e.g., no response on the network) or because something is messed up in the bind code or the pthreads machinery. I'm on a Pentium on Linux, so it's not a tru64 issue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
