Re: ITS#3950

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> HEAD/re23 thr_posix.c match.  That is, the patch suggested in
> ITS#3950 was never applied to HEAD nor RE23.  IIRC, Howard
> reworked portions of slapd(8) so as not rely so heavily on
> thread yielding.  It's quite possible that some of these
> changes haven't found there way into RE23.
>   

I reworked most of the yield() calls in daemon.c, and those changes are 
in RE23. However, the BDB library itself makes yield() calls as well, 
which I ignored. It seems we should apply the patch in ITS#3950 after all.
> Kurt
>
> At 11:00 AM 1/5/2006, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>   
> > I would suspect that if ITS#3950 was a problem in 2.3.13+, it
> > would also be a problem with 2.3.11.  But I note that some of
> > the reports indicate no problem with 2.3.11 but problems with
> > 2.3.13+.  Of course, there might be other factors involved.
> >
> > I've reopened the ITS and clarified its notes to indicate that
> > the fix (or I should say the "our workaround for what could be
> > considered a pthread implementation bug") is not in RE23
> > as opposed to the issue not being in RE23.
> >
> > At 10:21 AM 1/5/2006, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> >     
> > > Any particular reason why the fix to this issue, which *is* present in 2.3, contrary to the notes in the ITS, isn't in OL 2.3? :)  I'm guessing this is what is causing the large scale reporting of "performance problems" on the software list.  Maybe a quick 2.3.16 release?
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