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#ifdef ISC_PLATFORM_USETHREADS

        /*
         * This is a temporary (probably) hack to fix a bug on tru64 5.1
         * and 5.1a.  Sometimes, pthread_cond_timedwait() doesn't actually
         * return when the time expires, so here, we check to see if
         * we're 15 seconds or more behind, and if we are, we signal
         * the dispatcher.  This isn't such a bad idea as a general purpose
         * watchdog, so perhaps we should just leave it in here.
         */

The bug is in the Debian portable threads library or in the hardware.

Here is the origin

http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/


I did not find it in my logs, neither multi nor single cpu, neither Debian
nor other. But Im am running plain 32 bit after having encountered
peculiarities with SuSE and 64 bits.

As far as I can see the messages does not depend on the -debug switch setting.

You might try to temporarily switch the kernel to use a single cpu, just to
see if the message is gone then. But only if it occurs often enough and
dont leave it single cpu :)


Kind regards
Peter



Micah Anderson wrote:
> I have one machine, running Debian Etch with bind9 version
> 1:9.3.4-2etch1 installed. I have begun to get frequent
> "*** POKED TIMER ***" messages in my logs.
> 
> Searching the internet does not pull up anything useful, there are a few
> people who say that its a freebsd issue (obviously not) and to look in
> their archives. I did look in their archives, but its specific to
> freebsd and doesn't apply here. I've searched this list's archives for
> ideas, and am out of ideas of what to do.
> 
> I have this same version installed on the same hardware, running the
> same operating system revision.
> 
> I'm looking for suggestions, or mechanisms to debug this. Clearly
> something is not working right here, and I'd like to get it resolved and
> offer up as a sacrifice to the great search engines in the sky the
> answer so that in the future when I encounter this problem again I am
> able to search and find my own post and the answer.
> 
> micah
> 
> 

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