With today's cvs kaffe i have experienced some serious instability on my Fedora Core 2 test 2 box (Athlon). When trying the TheadState regression test 10 times i got the following:
6 times no problem
2 times: Internal error: caught an unexpected exception. Please check your CLASSPATH and your installation. java/lang/NullPointerException Avbruten (SIGABRT)
1 time, silent lockup. No Success messages, no cpu utilization. 1 time, lockup after a 5 Success messages, no cpu utilization
I'll do some binary searching for the 'latest good' cvs state now, but if anyone has an idea of what to look for I'm interseted.
Hi Noa,
pthreads have been flakey for me for a while, it was just the recent changes that made the flakeyness occur more regularly. The two tests that give me irregular breakage are GCTest & WaitTest. WaitTest uses ocasionally to either hang in the second thread for more than 300sec, or to quit the second thread with a bad value. GCTest ocassionally seems to miss a line of output. I've noticed the frequency of flakey output increased after my change from
2004-10-12 Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* kaffe/kaffevm/systems/unix-pthreads/thread-internal.h
(jthread_on_current_stack): De-inlined to fix compiler
warnings. * kaffe/kaffevm/systems/unix-pthreads/thread-impl.c
(jthread_on_current_stack): Moved over here.but I'd be surprised if deinlining it skewed the calculations as they use stackMin/Max which are set when a thread is created.
cheers, dalibor topic
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