Re: cvs commit: apr STATUS

[Greg Ames <gr...@remulak.net>]

jerenkrantz@apache.org wrote:

>   And, you thought there wasn't going to be anything happening with this
>   item (FreeBSD and threading support)?  Ha!

>   +        Status: Justin has tracked down a FreeBSD kernel hacker
>   +                (alfred@freebsd.org) and we've isolated some issues
>   +                within src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_sendfile.c.  There
>   +                are some problems in FreeBSD between libc_r and the
>   +                kernel implementation of sendfile.  

This sounds encouraging.  You may have gotten further than we did last
year on daedalus.  We were seeing infinite loops in libc_r dealing with
signals whenever we built apr with threads and then hit httpd with
traffic, even with prefork.  What level of FreeBSD are you using?  And
have you ever tried a significant workload?

Greg

Re: cvs commit: apr STATUS

[Justin Erenkrantz <je...@ebuilt.com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Greg Ames wrote:
> jerenkrantz@apache.org wrote:
> >   +        Status: Justin has tracked down a FreeBSD kernel hacker
> >   +                (alfred@freebsd.org) and we've isolated some issues
> >   +                within src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_sendfile.c.  There
> >   +                are some problems in FreeBSD between libc_r and the
> >   +                kernel implementation of sendfile.  
> 
> This sounds encouraging.  You may have gotten further than we did last
> year on daedalus.  We were seeing infinite loops in libc_r dealing with
> signals whenever we built apr with threads and then hit httpd with
> traffic, even with prefork.  What level of FreeBSD are you using?  And
> have you ever tried a significant workload?

I'm currently dealing with -CURRENT right now as I figure that might 
be the best way to deal with the FreeBSD developers.  I'd figure that
once we have sendfile(2) working, we can start dealing with other
issues as I can identify them and pass them along.  And, I might 
just get proficient enough where I can submit my own patches.  =)

I'm about to file a PR in FreeBSD-land and I'll update the STATUS
file with that PR.  -- justin