Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 [u]

["Martin Schlemmer [c]" <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>]

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On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 13:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Martin Schlemmer [c]" <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I want to imagine there is some reason why some threading apps will have
> >  > issues?  I have since rc1-mm4 issues with evolution - some threads do
> >  > not seem to come out of sleep or get running time for some reason.
> >  > Unfortunately I cannot find the thread again.  Is there a patch I can
> >  > apply/revert to get it to work for now?
> >  > 
> > 
> >  I should note that if I killall -STOP and then killall -CONT all
> >  evolution processes (evolution-data-server-1.0, evolution-alarm-notify
> >  and evolution-2.0) it works again for a while.  The issue happens pretty
> >  quick after I start evo ...
> 
> Could you please try:
> 
> wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc1/2.6.10-rc1-mm5/broken-out/futex_wait-fix.patch
> patch -R -p1 < futex_wait-fix.patch
> 
> the retest?

Yep, this seems to fix it (usually one thread at least have already hung
at start for evo, now fine after a few mail fetches).

Is this a regression, or as in the other thread an issue with evolution
that should be fixed ?  (Note:  gnome-btdownload also seemed to hang
overnight with -mm[45], but I do not know if its related)


Thanks,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer


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