Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Marlow
Wolfgang Thaller wrote: Could someone on MacOS X try the 6.4.x branch again? I just committed a fix that makes the threaded RTS more stable on Solaris, and I'm hoping it clears up the problems on MacOS X too. Remember to re-enable -threaded in ghc/compiler/Makefile if you previously disa

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-10-16 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
Could someone on MacOS X try the 6.4.x branch again? I just committed a fix that makes the threaded RTS more stable on Solaris, and I'm hoping it clears up the problems on MacOS X too. Remember to re-enable -threaded in ghc/compiler/Makefile if you previously disabled it. The problem se

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Marlow
Could someone on MacOS X try the 6.4.x branch again? I just committed a fix that makes the threaded RTS more stable on Solaris, and I'm hoping it clears up the problems on MacOS X too. Remember to re-enable -threaded in ghc/compiler/Makefile if you previously disabled it. If this does indeed

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-29 Thread Simon Marlow
David Kirkman wrote: I ran the testsuite against the current HEAD (as of saturday afternoon) and had far fewer failures. Is the last week's work supposed to have fixed so many test cases? Or are different machines giving different results? The tests that resulted in unexpected failures for gre

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-28 Thread Gregory Wright
I'll run the latest on my G4 tonight and we can see. Best Wishes, Greg On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:05 AM, David Kirkman wrote: I ran the testsuite against the current HEAD (as of saturday afternoon) and had far fewer failures. Is the last week's work supposed to have fixed so many test cases?

Re: Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-27 Thread David Kirkman
I ran the testsuite against the current HEAD (as of saturday afternoon) and had far fewer failures. Is the last week's work supposed to have fixed so many test cases? Or are different machines giving different results? The tests that resulted in unexpected failures for greg were all run on my m

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Gregory Wright wrote: Here's what happened (this is after I applied David Kirkman's SMP.h patch to my tree). When I said 132 failures I was speaking from memory. The actual number was 136, as noted in the log: OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Mon Aug 14 11:20:03 EDT 2006 1412 t

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Gregory Wright wrote: I built HEAD and ran ghc-regress last week. It looks like the compiler crashes are almost all gone. There are still 132 unexpected failures, but only one compiler crash. Are these crashes all for the thr

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Gregory Wright wrote: I built HEAD and ran ghc-regress last week. It looks like the compiler crashes are almost all gone. There are still 132 unexpected failures, but only one compiler crash. Are these crashes all for the th

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Gregory Wright wrote: I built HEAD and ran ghc-regress last week. It looks like the compiler crashes are almost all gone. There are still 132 unexpected failures, but only one compiler crash. Are these crashes all for the threaded2 way? We'll probably need to disable SMP on PPC for th

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, On Aug 24, 2006, at 3:56 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Hi Folks, Roman Leshchinskiy and I looked into the 6.4.3 crashes on Sparc/ Solaris yesterday. I think we may have found the problem, and it seems likely that this is the same problem affecting 6.4.3 on MacOS X. The threaded RTS

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread pepe
"Worse is Better" gives an entertaining view on this fact. pepe On 24/08/06, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 08:56 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Roman Leshchinskiy and I looked into the 6.4.3 crashes on Sparc/Solaris > yesterday. I think we may have found

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread skaller
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 08:56 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Roman Leshchinskiy and I looked into the 6.4.3 crashes on Sparc/Solaris > yesterday. I think we may have found the problem, and it seems likely that > this > is the same problem affecting 6.4.3 on MacOS X. The threaded RTS

6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Folks, Roman Leshchinskiy and I looked into the 6.4.3 crashes on Sparc/Solaris yesterday. I think we may have found the problem, and it seems likely that this is the same problem affecting 6.4.3 on MacOS X. The threaded RTS is assuming in a couple of places that pthread_cond_wait() doesn'