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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:36:57 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net>
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Subject: Re: hyperthreading fix try #2
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:09:21PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:17:03AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >Command lines looked like (with thread and file counts filled in): $
> >python /lib/python2.4/test/test_threadedtempfile.py -t <threads> -f
> ><files>
> >
> >The results weren't particularly deterministic, beyond a general
> >'more threads, more files' -> 'more likely to hang'. 10 & 10 seemed
> >to do it fairly effectively although even that would occasionally
> >succeed (the default is 20 & 20).
> >
> >When it *did* hang, it was with a number of threads successfully
> >opening their files on an iteration, with the remainder of the
> >threads locking up attempting to open a new temporary file. The next
> >time around, the remaining threads would hang while attempting to
> >open the temporary file.
> >
> >The main script hangs because it is waiting for the threads to
> >terminate.
> 
> Is this a regression?

I don't know.

> Was this also problem with 1.5.12?

AFAICT, no.

However, another threaded regression test hung in 1.5.12 as indicated in
the README:

    Under XP Pro SP1, Cygwin 1.5.12-1, ntsec, and NTFS, Cygwin Python
    passes all tests except for following:

    ...
    test_threaded_import (occasionally hangs)

So, maybe I was just "lucky" test_threadedtempfile did not hang when I
ran the regression test especially since it hung under 1.5.10-3.

Jason

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