Subj : Re: Application hangs in pthread_join
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri Mar 18 2005 09:49 am


"Jeff" <joesiege@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1111161182.257518.98480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

>I have a multi-threaded application that occasionally hangs as it waits
> in pthread_join. This is a HTTP load tester (siege) and it tends to
> happen on GNU/Linux when the thread count exceeds 500. I suspect a
> thread gets hosed in a socket read and the main thread can't join it.

    The question is, what is the thread it's waiting for doing? And why do 
you need so many threads?

>  x = our.total_clients;
>  while(x){
>    pthread_join(peer[x--], &statusp);  <= hangs here!
>  }

    The question is, what is the other thread doing?

    DS

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