Re: Hang in threads.test

2011-02-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Andy Wingo writes: > On Sun 13 Feb 2011 10:58, Neil Jerram writes: > >> No. But that might be because the libgc on that machine - Debian >> 1:7.1-3 - is too old. What is the latest recommendation for libgc >> version? README says "at least version 7.0", but I suspect that's out >> of dat

Re: Hang in threads.test

2011-02-14 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sun 13 Feb 2011 22:12, Neil Jerram writes: > So I'd guess the question of which libgc version is best, is something > we can live with for 2.0 - until more data points emerge. Right? Yes, I think that's (unfortunately) right. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/

Re: Hang in threads.test

2011-02-13 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > On Sun 13 Feb 2011 10:58, Neil Jerram writes: > >> No. But that might be because the libgc on that machine - Debian >> 1:7.1-3 - is too old. What is the latest recommendation for libgc >> version? README says "at least version 7.0", but I suspect that's out >> of date. >

Re: Hang in threads.test

2011-02-13 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sun 13 Feb 2011 10:58, Neil Jerram writes: > No. But that might be because the libgc on that machine - Debian > 1:7.1-3 - is too old. What is the latest recommendation for libgc > version? README says "at least version 7.0", but I suspect that's out > of date. I think we are a little incoh

Re: Hang in threads.test

2011-02-13 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: >>> Neil Jerram writes: >>> My nightly build of master, on a relatively slow old machine, is hanging, on most nights, in `make check'. >> >> The hang seems to be caused by one thread (A) running (gc) at the same >> time as another thread (B) is doing GC_malloc_atomic

Re: Hang in threads.test

2011-02-11 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Neil, I realize this was an old message, but it didn't seem that the thread came to a conclusion: On Fri 24 Sep 2010 00:40, Neil Jerram writes: >> Neil Jerram writes: >> >>> My nightly build of master, on a relatively slow old machine, is >>> hanging, on most nights, in `make check'. > > Th

Re: Hang in threads.test

2010-09-27 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Could you run the program that I posted and report back? That program runs fine for me - except only 100% because I have a single core. I also modified it to add continual thread creation and destruction (attached), and it was still fine. Any further ide

Re: Hang in threads.test

2010-09-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Mike Gran writes: >> However, I cannot reproduce the problem with a stock 7.1 and a recent > >> CVS libgc on x86_64-linux-gnu. > > FWIW, threads.test hangs on my box as well. Before it was only > occasionally, but, lately it seems to happen all the time. Could you run the program that I p

Re: Hang in threads.test

2010-09-24 Thread Mike Gran
> However, I cannot reproduce the problem with a stock 7.1 and a recent > CVS libgc on x86_64-linux-gnu. FWIW, threads.test hangs on my box as well. Before it was only occasionally, but, lately it seems to happen all the time. -Mike

Re: Hang in threads.test

2010-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Neil, Neil Jerram writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> Neil Jerram writes: >> >>> My nightly build of master, on a relatively slow old machine, is >>> hanging, on most nights, in `make check'. >> >> FWIW, I realized that my backtraces are very similar to those reported >> by Dale here: >> htt

Re: Hang in threads.test

2010-09-23 Thread Neil Jerram
;s already fixed upstream; I haven't tried to check that yet. Regards, Neil >From 6013922c08c35a4e1051d4481d5bb4580bda1430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Jerram Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:13:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Workaround for hang in threads.test --- test-suite/tests/threads.te

Re: Hang in threads.test

2010-09-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> My nightly build of master, on a relatively slow old machine, is >> hanging, on most nights, in `make check'. > > FWIW, I realized that my backtraces are very similar to those reported > by Dale here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gu...@gnu.org/

Re: Hang in threads.test

2010-09-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram writes: > My nightly build of master, on a relatively slow old machine, is > hanging, on most nights, in `make check'. FWIW, I realized that my backtraces are very similar to those reported by Dale here: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gu...@gnu.org/msg05066.html. So I'll try to ans

Hang in threads.test

2010-09-18 Thread Neil Jerram
My nightly build of master, on a relatively slow old machine, is hanging, on most nights, in `make check'. The tail of check-guile.log says PASS: threads.test: mutex-ownership: mutex ownership for unlocked mutex PASS: threads.test: mutex-ownership: locking mutex on behalf of other thread PASS: th