Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms

[John Yau]

Hi Michael,

I don't know if really a bug due to xmms, I suspect that's the case.  I'm 
not familiar with xmms internals, but when I gdb'ed the process after it 
froze, all the threads either stopped at poll(), write(), select(), or 
nanosleep().  Some combination of the blocking calls among those is probably 
causing the stall.  I highly doubt it's due to the kernel since I haven't 
been experiencing hangs in any other applications.  It could be the socket 
code though if extensive modifications to it have been made, since I've 
never experienced hangs like this in the 2.4.18 kernel used by RedHat 8.0.


John Yau

> From: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "John Yau" <jyau_kernel_dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms
> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:03:35 +0200
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> On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:46, John Yau wrote:
> > Hi folks,
>
> Hi John,
>
> > xmms still completely hangs every once in a while for me.  However I
> > suspect it's due to a bug in xmms that deadlocks.  Anyone else 
> experiencing
> > hangs with xmms while tuning into Shoutcast???
>
> Yes, that's (was?) a bug of xmms.
>
> - --
> Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]
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