Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: atacama.four-d.de: mail set sender to using -f Message-ID: <3E59D3A1.2010209@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:11:13 +0100 From: Thomas Pfaff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Sadusk CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with pthreads References: <3E55C420.6030902@isilon.com> In-Reply-To: <3E55C420.6030902@isilon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joe Sadusk wrote: > I'm in qa, and I'm attempting to port a filesystem stress test written > for Linux to Windows using cygwin. It uses pthreads to create many > concurrent threads which read files out of a directory in various > patterns. The thing is, I've found that with any more than 55 threads, > pthread_join will hang indefinitely, for no apparent reason. Its also > only the second call to pthread_join. Its being called from the creator > thread and each of the threads were cancelled prior to being joined (and > the cancel appears to work fine, as all disk activity stops). Its very > strange. With 55 threads everything works exactly as expected, and with > 56 it doesn't work at all. Is this a known issue, or am I doing > something wrong? Please provide a testcase. Thomas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/