Re: [Boost-testing] [interprocess] upgradeable_mutex_test deadlocking on sun-5.8

From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-15 14:56:42

On Sep 15, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>> On Sep 14, 2007, at 9:37 AM, K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>>> On Sep 14, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
>
>>>> <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1266>.
>
>>> This sounds like fun.  I'll take a look.
>
>> I've got this in and working.
>
> Awesome!

The attached patch has been compiled with Sun, Ibm (vacpp), Gcc,  
Intel, Pathscale, and Pgi unix toolsets.  As you'll notice in the  
patch, I use both setrlimit, to set a maximum cpu process usage  
limit, and have logic to compute the elapsed time in seconds to catch  
processes that hang and fail to consume any cpu.  The setrlimit call  
is not strictly necessary and could be removed, but I've left it in  
for now, and it may be useful to constrain other resource usage in  
the future).

I've set up all my nightly Boost regression tests to pass -l100, just  
to make sure something gets killed and reaped.  This means the Sandia  
results will be suspect for the next day or so as I may be killing  
tests that would, if given enough time, complete and pass just fine.   
If my tests run okay tonight (no hangs or other weirdness), and  
there's no other objections, I'll commit this patch to the trunk  
sometime tomorrow.

-- Noel