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diff --git a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn index 0f6b9f19..5924d3f9 100644 --- a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -36,6 +37,18 @@ Control*](http://soft.vub.ac.be/~tvcutsem/talks/presentations/T37_nobackground.p Tom Van Cutsem, 2009. +## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-07-08 + + <youpi> braunr: about limiting number of threads, IIRC the problem is that + for some threads, completing their work means triggering some action in + the server itself, and waiting for it (with, unfortunately, some lock + held), which never terminates when we can't create new threads any more + <braunr> youpi: the number of threads should be limited, but not globally + by libports + <braunr> pagers should throttle their writeback requests + <youpi> right + + # Alternative approaches: * <http://www.concurrencykit.org/> |