> The symptoms are as follows: The server uses 99% CPU as hundreds of threads > continue to run. It appears that each is trying to access objects in the > database, but these database operations are all blocking.
Sounds like a deadlock scenario to me. "Fixed" in unstable. For stable, use the external deadlock detector: see DB-BDB::START-DEADLOCK-DETECTOR and the DEADLOCK-DETECT arg to OPEN-STORE. Be sure to set the correct path to your db_deadlock binary in my-config.sexp. Leslie _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel