Fyi, just raised https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-1169 for this.
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Frank Quinn <fquinn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I think I have found an issue with qpid proton when running in point to > point mode. If running a single recv thread and 3 concurrent messenger > links are set up with it, it seems to cause a deadlock in the third > pn_messenger_send. All subsequent attempts to send will also hang (i.e. the > proton example send.c application). > > We found this behaviour in our own code for OpenMAMA, but I think we have > a valid recreation in native qpid proton code here too - see > https://github.com/OpenMAMA/OpenMAMA/files/200901/om-issue-153.zip > (attached as part of where it was discovered - > https://github.com/OpenMAMA/OpenMAMA/issues/153). > > If you compile and run that code on latest yum versions for Fedora 23 / > qpid proton, you'll get: > > Creating the messengers > Starting the messengers > Starting listener thread > pthread_create successful > Creating message for sending > Setting the subject for the message > Setting the address and sending message to subscriber > Sending from first publisher > Sent from first publisher > Recv got something > Received message with subject 'First Publisher' > Sending from second publisher > Sent from second publisher > Recv got something > Received message with subject 'Second Publisher' > Sending from third publisher > > > Then it hangs - you never get "Sent from third publisher". > > The application sets up one messenger to run on its own recv thread, then > on the main thread, it fires up 3 distinct messengers and attempts to send > a single message from each messenger, and the third one hangs. > > Can you let me know what you think? Should I raise an issue or is this > something we can configure / workaround our way out of? > > Cheers, > Frank >