libkse and SMP (was Re: USB bulk read & pthreads)

[Julian Elischer]

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (May 22), Dan Nelson said:
> > In the last episode (May 22), Julian Elischer said:
> > > AHA!
> > > I've seen this panic from ksetest..
> > > can you go to /usr/src/tools/KSE/ksetest
> > > and 
> > > make
> > > ./ksetest
> > > 
> > > it may not do it the first time so let it run 10 seconds then kill
> > > it with ^C and retry about 10 times..
> > 
> > It's not cooperating..  It hasn't crashed for me yet.  Sometimes it
> > exits cleanly on its own immediately after starting (see below), but
> > it's never caused a panic.  I'll try automating it by running it in a
> > loop with a 2nd script running killall -9 ksetest every 10 seconds.
> 
> Ok, after an hour still no panics.  Should it really be exiting on its
> own this often, though?
> 
> $ lastcomm ksetest | cut -c1-20 | sort | uniq -c
> 
>   75 ksetest          -
>  366 ksetest          -X
> 
> The above proceses were generated by the following loops in two
> different vtys:

no it's not supposed to stop.. I wonder why it does it..
I have seen it a few ties on my system.. I'll try track it down..


> 
> while sleep 10 ; do killall -9 ksetest ; done
> while : ; do ./ksetest; done
>  
Thanks..

it's almost as if after a system has seen this crash  few times
it gets immune from it in some way..

my system has stopped doing it.. :-(

thanks for trying however..


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> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com
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