Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-27 Thread Ian Eslick
On Feb 27, 2009, at 3:56 AM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > >> LPP> I spawned a thread that does some heavy slot access. So maybe >> LPP> the serializer isn't entirely multi-thread or multi-process safe >> LPP> yet? >> >> maybe. there were some issues with it (trivial ones), who knows, >> maybe we've

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-27 Thread Alex Mizrahi
??>> if you have a multi-core system and value stability over performance, ??>> i strongly recommend binding you lisp process to a single core (via ??>> taskset in Linux, for example). this way multithreading-related issues ??>> will have much less chances to happen. LPP> No choice in a web s

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-27 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> LPP> I spawned a thread that does some heavy slot access. So maybe > LPP> the serializer isn't entirely multi-thread or multi-process safe > LPP> yet? > > maybe. there were some issues with it (trivial ones), who knows, > maybe we've overlooked something. We should probably consider adding a

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-27 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> I thought we resolved those issues some time back (e.g. accidentally > sharing a buffer-stream). It's possible there was a regression, but > nothing obvious comes to mind. I presume this same thread operated > fine prior to your upgrade to alpha? No, not really. We've had serialization errors

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Mizrahi
LPP> I spawned a thread that does some heavy slot access. So maybe LPP> the serializer isn't entirely multi-thread or multi-process safe LPP> yet? maybe. there were some issues with it (trivial ones), who knows, maybe we've overlooked something. if you have a multi-core system and value stabil

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-24 Thread Ian Eslick
PS - I do have a live system that I've been incrementally migrating since September without any upgrades or fixes, so I don't think there is an obvious incompatibility. Are you on a 64-bit or 32-bit machine? (and SBCL/Linux, I presume) I cleaned up some optimization code in memutils relatin

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-24 Thread Ian Eslick
I thought we resolved those issues some time back (e.g. accidentally sharing a buffer-stream). It's possible there was a regression, but nothing obvious comes to mind. I presume this same thread operated fine prior to your upgrade to alpha? Can you generate a diff for me? I might catch so

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-24 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> Can you give more information about the condition under which it > cropped up? I spawned a thread that does some heavy slot access. So maybe the serializer isn't entirely multi-thread or multi-process safe yet? Leslie -- LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer Xing Profile: htt

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-24 Thread Ian Eslick
Can you give more information about the condition under which it cropped up? -Ian On Feb 24, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > >>I provided a patch to fix the problem occured in the 0.9.1->1.02a >> upgrade process. >>The issue occurs when doing migrate with SBCL. The deseriali

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-24 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> I provided a patch to fix the problem occured in the 0.9.1->1.02a > upgrade process. > The issue occurs when doing migrate with SBCL. The deserialization > exception is reported. > The latest email chain includes more details. Thanks, but I wasn't using MIGRATE at all... -- Linked

Re: [elephant-devel] Serializer compatibility

2009-02-23 Thread quan hu
Hi Lesile, I provided a patch to fix the problem occured in the 0.9.1->1.02a upgrade process. The issue occurs when doing migrate with SBCL. The deserialization exception is reported. The latest email chain includes more details. If the failure symtom is similar, you may want to u