At 09:39 PM 4/02/2009, you wrote:

>Helen,
>As I see in most of this answers, there is a common suspect about UDF...
>Developers use the Rfunc that has any years without upgrading (since 2003),
>when FB 2.1 was not in the field.
>How can we check if there is the problem of the random crashes? We have
>downloaded in the Suse Linux and compiled there before to install it.

Consult the author?

>> b) you're trying to use the non-NPTL package on a Linux where NPTL is the
>active threading model.
>We have installed a non-NPTL package while the OS supports them. I thought
>that there could be no problem with this, just threading would work in the
>normal speed, but not to crash the FB server. Isn't it?

No. It is not about "speed", it is about how the kernel manages threads. Superserver runs threads for client connections.

Read the section "Setting Linux to Use the Old Threading Model" in the POSIX section of the Installation and Migration document. It has instructions for configuring your OS to use the old threading model.

But....!

You said you were using OpenSuSE. I haven't heard of any problems with using NPTL-builds on that platform, if it is reasonably recent. If there were problems (as there were with early SuSE and Fedora 2.6 kernels) you would want to reconfigure your system to non-NPTL and use the non-NPTL build; otherwise not.

Did you experience problems with the NPTL build?

./heLen