Re: [boost] [thread] Fails on 64-bit Linux?

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-12 16:22:21

Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
> Martin Wille wrote:
>> John Maddock wrote:
>>> Anyone any ideas about the remaining thread library regressions: 
>>> http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/issues_release_.html#thread 
>>> they're causing Boost.Regex failures as well apart from anything else :-(
>> That one is twofold. There's an error due to a resource limit (which I
>> can lift). There's a second error described in
>> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1323
> 
> I'm havint the same problem for Interprocess in your test machine 
> (Martin Wille x86_64) (http://tinyurl.com/2dtmtq):
> 
> Run [2007-10-29 09:12:58 UTC]: fail
> 
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 
> 'boost::thread_resource_error'
>    what():  boost::thread_resource_error
> 
> EXIT STATUS: 134
> 
> All Interprocess tests launching a thread seem to be suffering the same 
> problem. And I don't think I launch too many threads (5 at maximum) to 
> test a condition variable or mutex. Can we fix this or I should change 
> the number to 3?

I wonder where all the threads come from. RLIMIT_NRPOC is set to 10 by
default. That should be sufficient for 1 (shell) + 1 (test programm) + 1
(possible artificial thread of the MT implementation) + 5 threads. I
suspect the limit gets reduced drastically by the shell that gets
invoked to run the test binary.

Apparently, all thread-related tests are affected. I'll raise the limit
globally, once it is sorted out where the (additional) assertion errors
in some of the tests exactly comes from.

Regards,
m