On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 23:38 +0000, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm testing a small program that in a tight (busy) loop checks that another > thread has reached some specific state. > With valgrind, this runs forever on some machines, and returns pretty soon on > other (much slower) machines. > > Is this a known problem and is there a workaround? > I'm running Valgrind-3.7.0. > > Here's the program, and everything works fine with valgrind if I add a sleep > in > the loop (HERE). I guess you might have encountered the bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270006
If that is the case, you should upgrade to 3.8.1 and use the new option --fair-sched=yes Philippe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
