Boost logo

Boost :

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-21 08:51:01


>> How often, on what platform?
>
> Every time, on a dual core Pentium D running XP64. The program is compiled
> as 32 bit with MSVC 7.1. It looks like a livelock rather than a deadlock,
> since the program keeps spinning its wheels at 100% but never completes.
> The writer thread is probably either blocked or starved. This happens on
> another (quad core) machine too for which I don't know the specs at the
> moment.

The other box is XP32 w/ Q6600.

Another interesting tidbit is that if I move the focus from the cmd window
in which the test is running, it completes. Go figure.

The writer thread is likely being starved, no idea why or how.


Boost list run by bdawes at acm.org, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk