Hi Lukas,

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 12:40:11PM +0200, Lukas Tribus wrote:
> Can the 100% cpu load initially reported along with the segfaults be
> explained by the unsupported process shared mutex on FreeBSD, btw?

Absolutely. Some lists are updated within the lock. I let you imagine
what a double-linked list looks like when two writers access it at the
same time :-) Sometimes we used to get an outdated pointer resulting
in a segfault, sometimes a loop resulting in 100% user-space cpu.

Willy


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