On Tuesday 19 May 2009 12:34:23 James Harper wrote:
> I have specified Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4 in my director config, and
> when I manually start 4 jobs in a sequence, that setting is obeyed - I
> get 4 running jobs and the rest are 'awaiting execution'.
>
> When I have them all set to start on a schedule, I get all 8 running at
> once, which overloads my network and causes all sorts of other problems
> (a xen bug I think). I have had a _very_ quick look at the code, and I
> think I can see a race in the code to create a new thread - num_workers
> is only being incremented once the thread starts, so if the new thread
> doesn't get a chance to execute yet because lots of threads are being
> created at once, the 'num_workers < max_workers' check is always true.

What source code file are you referring to?

>
> setdebug doesn't seem to be doing its thing so I can't turn on debugging
> to check, but does that sound plausible? I think we need to move
> num_workers++ to just before the pthread_create, and decrement it if the
> pthread_create fails. I'll try that now...
>
> James
>
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