On 3/5/18 6:23 PM, Rebecca Cran wrote: > I've had a report that FIO on Windows (at least Server 2012 R2 and 2016) > hangs when the attached script is run. The point at which it hangs is > apparently random, and within the condvar (pthread-win32) calls. > > I've replicated the hang, but I don't have time to debug it so I was > hoping somebody on this mailing list might have time to dig into it and > figure out what's wrong. > > The people I was talking to thought it might be due to FIO linking to > msvcrt.dll, which is old and not supposed to be used by applications - > they should use the CRT distributed with Visual C++, such as > msvcr120.dll instead. However, it appears that fixing this would take > quite a lot of work since while FIO is relatively straightforward to > change, pthread-win32 hasn't had a full release since 2012 and doesn't > build under a current msys environment due to duplicated symbols etc. Do you at least know what mutex it's hanging on? -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
