Andreas Voellmy <andreas.voellmy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wrote a C program that behaves similar to my original program and > triggers the bug. The bug only arises when I use enough cores and > threads (about 16). The program is here: > https://github.com/AndreasVoellmy/epollbug/blob/master/epollbug.c I finally took a closer look at your code. I think your socketCheck() thread is draining socket and causing the normal threads to miss events. Use the FIONREAD ioctl() instead to get unread bytes instead of recv(). If you want to recv() without draining the socket, you can also use the MSG_PEEK flag. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html