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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9314.0. "Request help with DECthreads bugcheck" by IOSG::rj.reo.dec.com::Tron::Merewood (Richard, DTN 830-3352, REO2/F-C2) Thu Mar 27 1997 06:14

We are supporting a partner in the UK who is testing a large commercial 
application system. Currently they are stress testing the product, and have 
encountered, fairly reproducibly, a DECthreads bugcheck. I've been given 
the following information about it:

"We started a stress run yesterday. This ran for 9 hours before the sfs 
[Transarc Encina Structured File Server] went over. The sfs failed with 
the following message:

on ... Wed Mar 26 14:34:19 GMT 1997
  16 04348 97/03/26-14:35:25.309970 502c5448 A  Initialized ... Wed Mar 26 
14:35

:25 GMT 1997
DECthreads bugcheck (version V3.13-435), terminating execution.
vpUpcallThreadUnblocked: (os/kern) invalid argument (4) nxm_resched(24,0)"

Is this likely to be a Digital UNIX problem? If so, what diagnostic 
information should be collected to help find it? The partner can do 
whatever is needed to reproduce the problem.

Many thanks,

	Richard.

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9314.1COL01::LINNARTZThu Mar 27 1997 07:325
    take a look at clt::cma (the threads conf). it's handled in
    there, and there is a patch on the way, should be already available
    by now
    
    Pit
9314.2DCETHD::BUTENHOFDave Butenhof, DECthreadsThu Mar 27 1997 07:346
This looks like a known problem. The patch kitting & distribution mechanism
is still a bit of a mystery to me, but the way I read things a fix (to at
least a problem that shows the symptom you've reported) should be available
somewhere-around-now for the v4.0, v4.0A, and v4.0B streams.

	/dave
9314.3How to find patch?IOSG::newdial_2.reo.dec.com::Alffa::MerewoodRichard, 830-3352, REO2/F-C2Thu Mar 27 1997 11:324
Thanks for the quick response. Can anyone tell me how to find out what the 
patch is and how to get hold of it, please?

	Richard.