On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Kristian Waagan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08.10.11 03:31, Myrna van Lunteren wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Kristian Waagan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Den 07.10.2011 00:36, skrev Myrna van Lunteren: > > < snip > > >>>> Any issues anyone is working on backporting? >>> >>> Hi Myrna, >>> >>> I'm working on DERBY-5447, which is a Java deadlock involving the >>> automatic >>> index statistics daemon. It causes two threads to hang indefinitely. >>> I have two patches, one ran for 1099 iterations of the hanging test suite >>> without hitting the problem, the other is currently at 879 iterations >>> (each >>> iteration takes 60 - 90 seconds). Without the fix(es) the test ususally >>> hangs after 9 to 30 iterations. >>> >>> The good news is that the second patch is an isolated change to the istat >>> daemon itself, instead of modifying the core code in >>> BasePage.releaseExclusive. I wouldn't be afraid to port this to 10.8 >>> immediately after the fix goes into trunk. >>> >>> I don't want you to hold back the release because of this issue (as >>> several >>> factors have to come into play to trigger it), but it would be good to >>> know >>> when you plan to produce the next release candidate. >>> >>> >>> Regards, and thank you for your continued efforts for a solid 10.8.2, >>> -- >>> Kristian >>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Myrna >>> >>> >> >> I really wanted to make a release candidate on Monday, but I think >> it's not useful while we're analyzing various error conditions after >> Rick's backing out work for DERBY-5448. >> So, at this point, I don't think I'll make a release candidate on >> Monday. Let's see where we are at the end of Monday. > > Ok. > In any case, I backported DERBY-5447 to 10.8 with revision 1180811. > > > -- > Kristian > >> >> Myrna > > Thank you all for your feedback.
It seems to me that apart from another deadlock situation which Rick and Mike suspect is pre-existing 10.8.2 and a worrying but likely unreproducible error (DERBY-5450) there is nothing more to be done for this release. I'll spin a release candidate now. Myrna
