"Francois Rouaix" <frouaix@yahoo.com> writes:

> Is anyone using native threads in Ocaml 3.04 intensively on Linux these
> days ?
> I'm playing with a Gnutella servent, and I'm experimenting crashes
> (bytecode and native).
> I'm using the unix library heavily. So far, I'm aware that the DNS calls
> are not reentrant,
> but the rest of the library calls should be okay.
> 
> My "crashes" are weird... There is no core (ulimit -c unlimited, before
> you ask).
> The program "hangs", ps looks like this. Looks like a thread is stuck.
> 

Are you using lock ? (you should). This look like a deadlock, you
should log all you locking to see if the problem is there.

> 18964 pts/3    S      0:00 ./camella.opt
> 18965 pts/3    Z      0:00 [camella.opt <defunct>]

mmm, there is a dead thread. May be it has lock something before dying
with out releasing it...
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Rémi Vanicat
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