Hi Helen,

Thanks for pointing me to the correct info.
I'll go for the first option (disable NPTL).
A colleague of mine mentioned a manual build of SS on that Redhat9
machine could also help.

best regards,

Dirk Naudts.

PS. : In the mean time I've got your book (and read half of it so
far), and it's great (Those statistics finally make sense now)


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 10:51 AM 20/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
> >Hi HeLen,
> >
> >We did try the new NPTL builds.
> >More as a "try and see wether this is better" approach than as a

well

> >funded desciscion :-(
> >I hadn't noticed the "NTPL problems" item in the release docs

(mainly

> >because I wasn't even aware that Redhat 9 was NPTL).
>
> From p.57:
> ! NTPL problems on higher Linuxen:
> The new NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) in Red Hat 9 (so far)

will cause

> problems for SuperServer and locally compiled programs, including

the

> utilities. Gbak, particularly, will throw a Broken Pipe error. To

fix....

>
>
> >But the release docs of the new NPTL build mention that the NPTL
> >problems were solved. Should I still do what is mentioned in the
> >initial release docs ?
>
> NPTL "problems" means trying to run an application that uses the

old

> threading model on a distro that uses the NPTL. So disable NPTL if

you

> want to run a non-NPTL version of SS; or sail ahead with NPTL on

RH 9 if

> the NPTL version works fine.
>
> ./hb