[erlang-bugs] Errors when using file:sendfile/2

[Ali Sabil]

Any news on this? I have experienced problems with sendfile in R15B1,
where all IO on the node got blocked.

Thanks,
Ali

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Lukas Larsson <lukas@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for reporting this. The bug does, as Tuncer said, not appear if you
> run with async-threads. I've identified the issue and I'm working on a
> solution. While waiting for the fix I recommend all to use async-threads in
> a VM running sendfile as it is less prone to race-conditions and should be
> faster.
>
> Lukas
>
>
> On 29/12/11 17:26, Magnus Klaar wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm encountered the following errors while testing a module using
> file:sendfile/2. It appears to be quite rare. 17 errors were logged for
> 11000 requests sent to the server. This is using "Erlang R15B (erts-5.9)
> [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]"
> running on "Linux $(hostname) 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 27 16:21:11 UTC
> 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux".
>
> =ERROR REPORT==== 29-Dec-2011::16:55:15 ===
> driver_select(0x000000000000032a, 107, ERL_DRV_READ ERL_DRV_USE, 1) by
> tcp_inet driver #Port<0.4906> failed: fd=107 (re)selected before stop_select
> was called for driver efile
>
>
> =ERROR REPORT==== 29-Dec-2011::16:55:20 ===
> driver_select(0x0000000000000069, 106, ERL_DRV_READ ERL_DRV_USE, 1) by
> tcp_inet driver #Port<0.5225> failed: fd=106 (re)selected before stop_select
> was called for driver efile
>
>
> The code is not merged into the main project yet and test is rather ad-hoc,
> I'm defaulting to not providing it unless you specifically ask for it. Let
> me know if you need and I'll write a summary for downloading and running it
> if the error messages are not informative enough.
>
> MVH Magnus
>
>
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