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How long do you have to wait for this "freeze"? Cos I'm not seeing it on my vista/perl v5.10.1 system.

It runs quite slowly, but that's an artifact of your architecture rather than any specific problem. I see no memory growth. No excessive cpu usage. And no partiicular slow down in the processing rate.

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Re^2: System call in thread hangs threaded application on win32
by tormod (Novice) on Feb 26, 2010 at 14:04 UTC
    Hi. I only have to wait a few minutes before it hangs. The last run did 88 pings pr. worker before it hung. Perl version is 5.10.1 on a windows 7 machine running in Virtualbox. The script postet is a script to replicate the problem, it does not represent the application that i have problems with.
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      Hm. It's upto 1300+ pings per thread so far and still no sign of any slowdown.

      Methinks maybe you should try your real code outside of a VM and see how you fair there.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        I have now tried the script on a windows 2000 machine running Citrix, and it still runs ok. I have also tried to set the number of processors on the windows 7 machine running in virtualbox to one, and now it runs fine without hanging.

        I can only replicate the error on a windows 7 machine with more than 1 processor, and that machine is a virtual machine. Next week I can test the script on a windows 7 machine with 2 processors that is running on real hardware and not in Virtualbox.

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      Using (64-bit) 5.10.1 running under Windows 7, > 800 and still climbing - no problems.
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