Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be>:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 11:00:39AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >
> > While this did enable me to recover from my errors, it also turned up
> > a serious problem. The combination of the buggy async-DNS code we
> > inherited from Classic and use of pool servers causes *very* frequent
> > crashes.
>
> Can you give some more details about the issue you're seeing?
Running under gdb, I saw a SIGBRT in the context of the async-DNS code
last night. Because execution terminated with a signal, the near end
of the stack trace is difficult to read. Threads are definitely
involved.
At the time I was seeing crashes every three or four minutes.
I wired force_synchronous_dns to true and the problem went away
instantly.
However I didn
> If it's the one I'm thinking about, I think the solution is to
> remove the locking of memory.
Ah yes, I think I recall that being one of the workarounds. The
option is still available.
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