[Swan] a thought about testing threading

Paul Wouters pwouters at redhat.com
Thu Mar 7 21:04:02 EET 2013


On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> We don't know if the threading problems are competitions between the main
> thread and helper threads or just between helper threads.
>
> It might be useful to test with only one helper thread.  Can that be made
> to fail?

I've tested with nhelpers=0 and 1, but I believe only the crypto helpers
honour that. Not the XAUTH or CRL threads, which I think is where we see
these issues now.

Paul


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