TIP: yum hangs on futex()

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 21:33:08 EST 2007


On 1/17/07, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> I'm curious - does anybody know what's up with the BerkeleyDB?  It's
> been around for a long while, and I've seen corruption before, but
> rarely.  It seems to be becoming much more common.

  I'd guess that things are becoming more multi-tasked/multi-threaded.
 Writing good single-task code is hard enough; mutli-tasking is really
hard, and multi-threading (re-entrant code) is, like, really, really
hard.  (I sprained my vocabulary this morning.)

  This isn't based on anything more than a gut feeling, but hey, that
works for management.  ;-)

-- Ben


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