On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:25:34AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Has anybody tried building their Gentoo (~x86) system using NPTL, PIC > and SMP?
Yes. > I have a hyperthreaded P4 3.06 system and I run it using an SMP > (2.6.1) kernel. I also have an HT P4. > I rebuilt my system using NPTL and PIC and at first things would go > very quickly. However, every time I have tried this, at some point a > threaded process gets stuck (i.e. there were four perl processes that > could not be killed, even with -9) that make the system essentially > stop responding. I have tried this several different times over the > last few months, and at some point I will eventually see the system > slow to a crawl and essentially go non-responsive. I have managed > to build KDE and others that work fine, but then a simple build of > say, nmap will suddenly never end, and slowly the system becomes > unresponsive. Did you build perl with the 'threads' USE flag? That is known to be troublesome. > Has anybody else noticed this? It is certainly repeatable, but it > seems arbitrary when the problem will arise. > > I have been anxious to try some speed comparisons between FreeBSD's > KSE and Linux's NPTL ... but so far, it appears that any extended test > will favor KSE on my machine, as NPTL is arbitrarily failing. Maybe I am reading that too literally, but how do you plan on isolating the effects of just KSE and NPTL? Perhaps you mean a comparison of the operating systems with the respective thread libraries. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
