Re: Linux or FreeBSD a better choice for threads/tasking?

["Sander Pilon" <nospam.sander@3dnews.net.spamsucks>]

"Dima Volodin" <dvv@dvv.org> wrote in message
news:3AC8B9DD.134B6562@dvv.org...
> Sander Pilon wrote:
>
> > "Dima Volodin" <dvv@dvv.org> wrote in message
> > news:3AC7880C.24EE5D01@dvv.org...
> > > What does it mean "running aggressively"? I have a multithreaded
program
> > > that runs on a 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD box for weeks at a time without
> > > crashing at all. Am I not aggressive enough?
> > >
> >
> > Probably not.
> >
> > I've got a application that uses threads (25 of them), and on linux it
can
> > run for hours and hours without crashing, and on freebsd 4.2-stable it
goes
> > down with buserrors or segfaults in minutes. ( we're developing it, so
> > "weeks" is not yet an option :)
>
> That's what sloppy written multithreaded applications do - they produce
> expected results in one environment and crash like mad in others. Not that
I'm
> saying that your application belongs to this class.
>

Yes I know. But we might as well be debugging the sloppy freebsd threads
implementation or the poor state of the c++ stl library of gcc.

I just wish we had some decent debugging tools with supports for threads....

-S