David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wondering if anyone else is testing the 2.1 RCs (I've got RC3 running right
> now for i386) and has noticed what appear to be problems with threading and/or
> DNS lookups which cause applications to hang (so to speak)?
> 
> [...]

hi david,

do you have a MP box and is PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY set to 2 or higher? I
had the same problems but lowering PTHREAD_RRTIME to 10 fixed this or
made this much less likely to occur

hope this helps,
SK