[tbnl-devel] tbnl freeze

[Edi Weitz]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:09:56 +0300, Ignas Mikalajunas <ignas.mikalajunas at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I am not sure whether it is related yet - I was having simmilar
> problems with tbnl/cmucl while making mod_lisp interoperate with
> mod_xslt. While server was getting enough traffic it was pretty
> responsive yet after long pauses I was getting timeouts. Though tbnl
> on sbcl was working fine with such configuration.
>   The workaround i have found was - send a ping request once in a few
> seconds not letting cmucl "sleep". As if one of cmucl threads was
> hogging all the resources and not giving any to threads that were not
> doing anything for a while ...

Ah, wait!  You guys use

  (mp::startup-idle-and-top-level-loops)

on startup, don't you?  If you don't, that /could/ be the reason for
the symptons you describe.

Cheers,
Edi.