Re: New IRC meeting schedule

2010-04-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi antrik, Am Mittwoch, 7. April 2010 02:50:42 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: As usual, I forgot to mention that we decided to change the meeting time again, to compensate for daylight saving time idiocy: from now on, we are meeting each Wednesday at 10:00 UTC. I updated the wiki (and

Re: news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-04-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:16:11PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 16:00:37 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Hi, On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 03:03:36PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: This month saw bugs dieing as they met hackers like [Jérémie,

Dealing with thread storms

2010-04-07 Thread Sergio Lopez
Hi all, Since it has been proved that throttling thread creation is not the solution (not even a proper workaround) to prevent thread storms, I'd like to discuss some strategies to deal with them. To my knowledge, thread storms are usually caused by GNU Mach continuously sending m_o_data_return

Re: libpager deadlock

2010-04-07 Thread Sergio Lopez
El Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:39:19 +0100 Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org escribió: Hello, From times to times, ext2fs deadlocks on the pager-interlock mutex. This is an excerpt of what I could find in the process: #2 0x08106e59 in memory_object_lock_request () #3 0x0806fdeb in

[bug #29463] Translators output garbage when started with settrans -P and stopped by gdb

2010-04-07 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29463 Summary: Translators output garbage when started with settrans -P and stopped by gdb Project: The GNU Hurd Submitted by: hammy Submitted on: Wed 07 Apr 2010 08:54:08 PM CEST

Re: libpager deadlock

2010-04-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
HEllo, Sergio Lopez, le Wed 07 Apr 2010 12:43:15 +0200, a écrit : El Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:39:19 +0100 Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org escribió: From times to times, ext2fs deadlocks on the pager-interlock mutex. This is an excerpt of what I could find in the process: #2