On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:11:14PM +0100, segv@netctl.net wrote:
> Greetings, just out of interest did anyone manage to unravel the mystery of
> why/how threading applications tend to completely freeze a running system?

I could not find any open PRs describing symptoms similar than your 
description, nor have I seen this myself.

I see threaded applications crashing regularily, due to local and in
registers being cleared on syscall return (I'm slowly investigating this),
but the rest of the system keeps going for me.

Martin