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Re: pthreads-w32 2.2.0 test failures


FYI I'm running pthreads on a number of multi-CPU machines. My twin :( And three 8-Ways in the office. It's also been run on a 32-way and it has been given a damn good thrashing.

More and more of our server applications are being made multi-threaded. For example, two single-thread RPC servers in C have been re-implmented as mulit-threaded RPC servers in C++. From taking 25% CPU load on a quad-machine I can now max-out most multi-CPU machines. Woo woo :)

(The main problem we found was that RPC is not thread-safe so we had to implement our own thread-safe version using Sun's implementation. Even the RPC on Solaris is not thread-safe.)

Our server applications runs on a number of different platforms (it has been reduced). Currently Windows, Solaris, AIX & HP-UX. So this project has been a help over a few years now.

We did find problems with older implementations, small bugs etc... that have been fixed in later releases.

I'm a bit concerned about the pthread_once() bug though. Have you a test application that shows this problem or are the test applications enough to show this?

Thanks, Steve Croall.

Tim Theisen wrote:
I agree with your assessment. Those tests need improvement.

At least you know someone is giving pthreads-w32 a run for its
money on a multiprocessor system.

...Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ross
Johnson
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 21:06
To: Pthreads-Win32 list
Subject: Re: pthreads-w32 2.2.0 test failures


All of these are unserialised shared global variables in the tests themselves!! Sketchy test coding that didn't show up on my single processor.

Almost certain it's not a problem with the library.

Thanks.
Ross


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