Re: [Openbts-discuss] OpenBYS and Ubuntu

[Alexsander L. <ale...@gm...>]

Hi David,

I'll give a try with OpenSUSE 11 64 bits only to see if the behaviour will
be the same. I let you know!

Tks,
Alex

2009/1/14 David A. Burgess <dbu...@jc...>

> Alex, Litie -
> You are both trying to run OpenBTS under Ubuntu and you are both having the
> same error.  It would appear that something in the Ubuntu pthread
> implementation is not behaving correctly. The pthread bug creates two
> effects:
>
> (1) It allows some threads to run freely when they should be blocked.  This
> causes the CPU load to be far too high.
>
> (2) It allows uncontrolled access to the paging list, which causes one of
> the threads to try to access a paging list element after it has already been
> destroyed.  This is what crashes the program.  There's nothing really
> special about the paging list, so this is probably happening in other
> places, too, but it crashes here first.
>
> The eventual solution is to determine the specific pthread failure and then
> patch the Threads module in CommonLibs to work around it.  I don't know how
> long that will take.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing about anyone else's knowledge of
> inconsistencies in Linux pthread implementations.
>
> -- David
>
>
>
> David A. Burgess
>
> OpenBTS on the web:
> http://openbts.sourceforge.net
> http://openbts.blogspot.com
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS
> http://www.gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/OpenBTS
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