Subject: Re: Enabling Native Pthreads
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/24/2003 14:42:05
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no> writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> 
> > I have no more xmms problems under the most current -current, but
> > mozilla routinely hangs for me if I touch it while the machine is
> > very busy.
> 
> Weird.  Total opposite of what I see.  Could this have to do with the
> type of sound card I use?  That the specific sound driver I'm using
> somehow makes xmms tickle a bug in the native pthreads?

It doesn't seem plausible, but I honestly can't say.

> Anyway, if someone would like to tell me how to extract the right
> information from my hanging xmms to help figure out what's wrong, I
> can easily reproduce the situation within a couple of minutes.  Here's
> what I observed with gdb today:

That's probably a question for nathan -- I don't know anyone else
who's capable of fixing the problem yet...

Perry