----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 11:38 PM Subject: Re: Do threads conflict?
> In the last episode (Oct 13), Mark said: > > > I just installed Sendmail::Milter, which I believe uses the ithreads > > model for Perl. I created my own Milter (Perl-threaded 5.8.0), and > > everything runs fine... Except that now, when the Milter is running, > > tinyproxy 1.5.0 goes haywire, filling up its log like crazy with this > > message: > > > > "Accept returned an error (Resource temporarily unavailable)... > > retrying." > > > > The only thing tinyproxy and the Milter have in common, is that they > > both use threads. > > > > Is there perhaps something that prevents both programs from using > > threads? Perhaps the threads-enabled version of the daemonized perl > > Milter keeps a shared library locked? So, now I can run either one or > > the other, but not both. I use this on FreeBSD 4.7R. > > They shouldn't conflict. That sounds like a libc_r bug; I think the > wrapper for accept() should retry the accept() call for the user. > > You might want to try updating to 4.8; there were a couple of important > commits to libc_r that fixed bugs that usually affected threaded daemons: Thanks for the answer, Dan. Upgrading to 4.8 is not directly possible on this production server. But can I not just recompile the kernel with a patch? > 2002-10-22 09:44 fjoe don't allow the uthread kernel pipe to use the same > descriptors as stdio This may be the one affecting me. After your hinting me to the problem, I did some further googling; but it sounds as if 5.1 still suffers from the same malady; for instance: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/1588 Thanks, - Mark _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
