[ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [ion] 20554: - Fix shamefully dangerously broken Work Thread/Queue/Item implementation:

[James Tabor]

Hartmut Birr wrote:
> Alex Ionescu wrote:
> 
>>Hartmut Birr wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The real problem is,
>>>KiAbortWaitThread is called for a thread which does not waiting.
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>Ok, since this happened after my worker thread patch and they use
>>kernel queues, I reviewed their implementation and found a number of
>>important flaws.. wether or not they cause this problem I can't tell
>>for sure, but I've also added a debug print before the
>>KeAbortWaitThread call... let me know if this patch fixes anything or
>>if the dprint shoes that the thread isn't really waiting.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Alex Ionescu
> 
> 
> I've test your changes (r20579 with r20601,20605,20606).
> KeAbortWaitThread is called for waiting threads only. But I'm running in
> another problem. Compiling ros on ros (with the nice parameter '-j2')
> hangs after some time. If I look to taskmgr or ctm, only the idle thread
> consumes cpu power. Sometimes I can stop the compiling with Ctrl-C,
> sometimes not. I wasn't able to compile ros on the smp machine. On the
> up machine, one of four compile runs does finish.
> 
> - Hartmut
Hi Hartmut,
try ps.exe and dump all the threads and processes.
Thanks,
James