Re: [evolution-patches] patch for bug 45504

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

meant to reply to this yesterday. looks good, but like you - I could
never reproduce this and so I'm not sure it really fixes the problem or
not. *shrug*

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:49 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> i think his system is running out of thread resources ... but *shrug*
> not sure.  this patch forces all dns lookups through a finite number
> of worker threads rather than having it unbounded.
> 
> side effect: cancellation of dns lookups will become less async than
> it was (i think, i'm not sure the pthread_cancel stuff cancelled it
> anyway).
> real solution: we probably need to use a decent async dns library, if
> one exists.
> 
> i'm not even sure this patch will address the problem, and he doesn't
> build from source, so i'm not sure how we can test it, and it doesn't
> seem to happen elsewhere but on his multi-user system.  I dont know
> how much effort a custom build is - if we can just put it in, let it
> filter through to the snapshots (are they being built for 7.3?), and
> retract it later, perhaps ...
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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