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Re: long uptime memory consumption
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: long uptime memory consumption |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 03:18:29 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.3.20i |
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:54:53PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > One thing that would be useful is to make the timeout for message serving
> > threads work. What is required for that?
>
> I don't know any reason it shouldn't work.
> There is just the line:
>
> thread_timeout = global_timeout = 0; /* XXX */
>
> in manage-multithread.c, which Thomas added in 1995 without any rationale
> given in the log entry or comments (and I certainly don't recall it).
> This might just have been to simplify debugging of something else at the time.
> You could try removing that line and see what happens.
There is the following entry in the tasks file which says:
--
Hurd work (these are brief descriptions; thomas can give more information):
* Make the thread timeout in libports/manage-multithread.c work.
* Make thread death in C threads really free resources.
--
Thomas, what kind of information can you share about it?
Thanks,
Marcus
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