At Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:48:34 +0100, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> > Is threads stable enough in product use of Bind? > > It's stable on mainstream architectures. GNU/Linux on i386 and amd64 > is fine in general. GNU/Linux on hppa, mips(el), ia64, and others is > problematic. The hppa instability could be due to the lack of a > stable SMP kernel. The ia64 issues seem to be a genuine BIND 9 issue. > > Part of the problem is that BIND contains its own set of wrappers for > atomic CPU operations, instead of using GCC's intrinsics or > libatomicops. That's an optional feature, even if it's enabled by default when found to be available by autoconf. If the atomic operations cause stability problems, you can disable them by rebuilding BIND9 with --disable-atomic. --- JINMEI, Tatuya Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
