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Should i switch to NPTL?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:08 pm    Post subject: Nptl - to be or not to be Reply with quote

So, should i use Nptl ? Is it better? Why? What bugs did you have ?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Nptl - to be or not to be Reply with quote

sickworm wrote:
So, should i use Nptl ? Is it better? Why? What bugs did you have ?


I see no real reasons to not use it. Especially not if your coding a lot of Java.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been running glibc with nptl for quite some time and have not had any problems with it. It is great when you use a lot of java applications. One process is started rather than numerous without nptl. Easier debugging also.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll reiterate similar sentiments of a seemless experience here as well. Had nptl enabled for at least 6 months without issue.

And ps never looked so nice.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

0 bugs so far. It's purty.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:03 pm    Post subject: I have some problems. Reply with quote

On my laptop (P3 750Mhz) it works flawlessly.

On my desktop (dual P3 1Ghz) it does not work. As soon as I emerge glibc, some programs (perl most notably) crash with a floating point exception. It lets me reemerge glibc though.

There are other issues with nptl.
check here
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:04 pm    Post subject: Re: I have some problems. Reply with quote

paulpach wrote:
On my laptop (P3 750Mhz) it works flawlessly.

On my desktop (dual P3 1Ghz) it does not work. As soon as I emerge glibc, some programs (perl most notably) crash with a floating point exception. It lets me reemerge glibc though.

There are other issues with nptl.
check here


Have you tried to re-emerge perl after compiling glibc with nptl?

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is there any requirement to use nptl? I'm on a AMD Athlon XP, using gentoo-sources 2.4.22 (currently emerging 2.4.25). When I tried emerging glibc with nptl, it said my "kernel or architecture does not support nptl". Is it a kernel config option?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think there's a config option for it, but nptl requires kernel 2.6.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Argh. I'm not switching to 2.6 any time soon - can't get my geForce card and sound card to work. Oh well, I'll have to wait before going to javahappyland.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:47 am    Post subject: Re: Nptl - to be or not to be Reply with quote

sickworm wrote:
So, should i use Nptl ? Is it better? Why? What bugs did you have ?

I didn't noticed any general improvements in "normal" applications (normal != java apps). Also, I'm having problems running/compiling valgrind.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:42 pm    Post subject: Re: I have some problems. Reply with quote

ebrostig wrote:

Have you tried to re-emerge perl after compiling glibc with nptl?

Erik


Yes I have, this is what I get:

Code:

#emerge perl
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-lang/perl-5.8.2-r1 to /

...

Checking your choice of C compiler and flags for coherency...
Configure: line 4962: 11694 Floating point exception$sh -c "$run ./try" >>try.msg 2>&1
I've tried to compile and run the following simple program:

#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("Ok\n"); return(0); }

I used the command:

        gcc -o try -O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -mmmx -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -L/usr/local/lib try.c -lpthread -lbind -lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
         ./try

and I got the following output:

The program compiled OK, but exited with status 136.
You have a problem.  Shall I abort Configure [y]
Ok.  Stopping Configure.

!!! ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.2-r1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 188, Exitcode 1
!!! Unable to configure


and emerge exits right there.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

some commercial software (for example matlab) doesn't work with glibc compiled enabling nptl

there are workarounds, but I don't like them
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mplayer and xmms etc. seg fault for me when nptl is enabled.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, how do I get NPTL? Is there a special version of glibc I need to emerge? Is it a USE flag? A kernel option?

[edit] Oh, and what are the advantages of NPTL?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IvanHoe wrote:
So, how do I get NPTL? Is there a special version of glibc I need to emerge? Is it a USE flag? A kernel option?

[edit] Oh, and what are the advantages of NPTL?


This:
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USE="nptl" emerge glibc

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

will nptl speed up other apps other then java?

Just wondering, becuase i'm about to install it :D:D:D:D

now where's that little script in "Tips & Tricks" section that shows all the apps that are installed with a given USE flag.......
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I honestly have not run into any problems with nptl.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't use NPTL.. the one time I tried using it it, I managed to royally fuck up glibc, and I had to install it from stage3. A huge pain in the ass.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aahh found it!!

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=112414&highlight=script+flag

thats a nice script.

Anyway, the only app that uses the nptl flag is glibc :D:D:D
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Riftwing wrote:
Mplayer and xmms etc. seg fault for me when nptl is enabled.


These both work fine for me with NPTL.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i see lots of errors about glibc when i start xmms. But it work fine. I just get the errors in console.

I tried rreinstalling xmms. But it did not get rid of the errors.

Anyway, it works fine. but shows error. :)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

xmms runs fine without any errors displayed on console. this is not a nptl problem i guess. btw which glibc are you using? try the latest ~x86 one. i've been using it for months now without problems. i only re-emerged glibc with nptl in the USE flag. still using 2.4 headers.

my system has NPTL, ACPI, APIC uniprocessor support, CFQ scheduler, all enabled, runs KDE 3.2 on a 2.6.5-love4 kernel. it simply ROCKS! no real stability issues for months now.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

venkat wrote:
my system has NPTL, ACPI, APIC uniprocessor support, CFQ scheduler, all enabled, .....


OK i've now added CFQ in grub and now i have everything that you have there.

Is there anything else i can do? i'm a performance junkie :D:D:D

I've got my whole system prelinked and using NPTL. i need more!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MooktaKiNG wrote:
venkat wrote:
my system has NPTL, ACPI, APIC uniprocessor support, CFQ scheduler, all enabled, .....


OK i've now added CFQ in grub and now i have everything that you have there.

Is there anything else i can do? i'm a performance junkie :D:D:D

I've got my whole system prelinked and using NPTL. i need more!!!!!!


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