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• what should happen if the kernel attempts to awaken all processes are sleeping on an event but no p

  - by akrodkick

  what should happen if the kernel attempts to awaken all processes are sleeping on an event but no processes are asleep on that event at the time of wake up?

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• Anyone been successful changing their career without having to start over from scratch?

  - by Awaken

  I posted a similar question on careeroverflow, but stackoverflow is just way more active and has way more users, so hopefully someone out there can help answer. I am currently an embedded developer in the defense/aerospace world for a big company. While I like the benefits and the pay, it just isn't keeping me happy. The Paul Graham article: How To Do What You Love really struck home. The problem I face are my golden handcuffs. When I look at jobs out there, they all want 5+ years experience in that language with expertise in framework/tool/server A,B,C, etc... I have worked in C and C++ on the job (in a real-time embedded environment) with some small things in C# and Java. I'm learning Ruby now to expand my knowledge, but I don't consider myself an expert in anything right now. I'd love to work on desktop applications or web apps. Is it possible for someone like me to make the switch without going back to the start line? I'd love to leave the huge bureaucracy and work with some great developers. I'd be willing to work late and take a modest pay cut, but that isn't so clear just from a resume. For those that have altered their career path, how did you do it? For those people who are in charge of hiring, what can I do to help myself?

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• Suspended Laptop Cannot Wake Up - Ubuntu

  - by Zack

  I've got an ASUS G73JH, and whenever I suspend it or hibernate it, it will not wake up. The screen stays backlight but is black. I can't: Awaken it with the keyboard Awaken it with the mouse Soft power-off by pressing the power button I have to hold down the power button and shut it down that way, and this seems a little unreasonable. Is there a place I could look for more detail as to what's causing this? Is there a known quick-fix to this issue?

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• Building a DataTable in C# with one column at a time

  - by Awaken

  I am trying to build a Retirement Calculator as a chance to make something useful and learn C# better. Currently, I am trying to build a DataTable with a dynamic amount of rows/columns. For context, I ask the user for some inputs regarding salary, % of salary being invested, and expected ROI. I have some other stuff too, but it isn't really part of the issue I am having. Because the number of columns I need for the DataTable is unknown until the formula is run (while+for loop completes), I am having trouble doing things as DataColumns. Hopefully the code below will help. I am really trying to build the table one column at a time. I realize I could reverse it to build it one row at a time because the Years before retirement (yearsRetire) is known, but I would prefer not to and I want to learn more. Sorry for the indentation and commenting. I tried to leave some of my commented coding attempts in there. Thanks for any help. public double calcROI() { double testROI = 0.00; double tempRetireAmount = 0; double adjustRetire = goalAmount * (1 + (Math.Pow(inflation,yearsRetire))); // Loop through ROI values until the calculated retire amount with the test ROI // is greater than the target amount adjusted for inflation while (tempRetireAmount < adjustRetire) { //Increment ROI by 1% per while iteration testROI += .01; //Make a new Column to hold the values for ROI for this while iteration //dtMain.Columns.Add(Convert.ToString(testROI)); //DataColumn tempdc = new DataColumn(Convert.ToString(testROI)); //Loop through the number of years entered by user and see the amount //at Retirement with current ROI for (int i = 0; i < yearsRetire; i++) { //Main formula to calculate amount after i years tempRetireAmount = (tempRetireAmount + salary*savingsPct) * (1 + testROI); // Add value for this year/ROI to table/column //DataRow dr = .NewRow(); //dr tempRetireAmount; //tempdc[i] = tempRetireAmount; } //Need to add column of data to my Main DataTable //dtMain.Rows.Add(dr); //dtMain.Columns.Add(tempdc); } return testROI; }

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• Power & Sleep Management

  - by Espressofa

  I'm running 12.10 with xmonad. Trying to ensure that the right things happen when I close laptop lid, etc. I see Internet search results for similar issues that mostly point towards gnome-power-manager. I have the package installed, but gnome-power-manager is not in my path anywhere. The behavior I'm looking for is as following: Sleep on lid close Awaken on lid open Turn off screen after 10 idle minutes Most importantly, have better battery life. I'm supposed to be getting 9 hours and I haven't seen the battery life estimate above 2.5 hours yet. Any tips on where to look or how to configure this would be much appreciated.

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• Network card dies when trying to wake up laptop from sleep

  - by Bugmaster

  I have a Dell XPS 1640 laptop (aka Dell Studio XPS 16), running Vista. Whenever the laptop wakes up from sleep, my Broadcomm LAN card immediately dies. Any attempt to access it completely locks up whichever program I use to access it. There appears to be no way to re-awaken the card, other than rebooting; note that Vista does not even shut down properly if some program is waiting for the card. So far, I have tried the following: Disabled the "allow your computer to shut down this device to save power" in the device properties. This had no effect. Attempted to disable and then enable the card in the device properties. No effect. Tried ipconfig /renew: this locks up ipconfig to the point where I can't even kill its process. Force-install updated drivers from broadcomm: no effect. Does anyone have any other ideas ?

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• Network card dies when trying to wake up laptop from sleep

  - by Bugmaster

  I have a Dell XPS 1640 laptop (aka Dell Studio XPS 16), running Vista. Whenever the laptop wakes up from sleep, my Broadcomm LAN card immediately dies. Any attempt to access it completely locks up whichever program I use to access it. There appears to be no way to re-awaken the card, other than rebooting; note that Vista does not even shut down properly if some program is waiting for the card. So far, I have tried the following: Disabled the "allow your computer to shut down this device to save power" in the device properties. This had no effect. Attempted to disable and then enable the card in the device properties. No effect. Tried ipconfig /renew: this locks up ipconfig to the point where I can't even kill its process. Force-install updated drivers from broadcomm: no effect. Does anyone have any other ideas ?

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• Suspended Laptop Cannot Wake Up - Ubuntu

  - by Zack

  I've got an ASUS G73JH, and whenever I suspend it or hibernate it, it will not wake up. The screen stays backlight but is black. The fan remains running, however the HDD does not, not disk activity is noticeable (audibly (It's not a SSD)). I can't: Awaken it with the keyboard Awaken it with the mouse Soft power-off by pressing the power button Change virtual screens by pressing Ctrl-Alt-# Restart X by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace I have to hold down the power button and shut it down that way, and this seems a little unreasonable. Is there a place I could look for more detail as to what's causing this? Is there a known quick-fix to this issue? Nothing is logged as happening when the system is in "suspend" mode. Here's what happened immediately before and after the suspend "happened," note the time gap: May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier now OFF (device state 1) May 4 17:48:57 tofu kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. This one's kinda long, here's what happened immediately before the suspend, I'm not sure if it'll help but if you can find a use for it: May 4 17:46:10 tofu anacron[3353]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2010-05-04 May 4 17:46:10 tofu anacron[3353]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.775927] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.775958] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain. May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.775987] CPU2 attaching NULL sched-domain. May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.776138] CPU3 attaching NULL sched-domain. May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.776168] CPU4 attaching NULL sched-domain. May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.776197] CPU5 attaching NULL sched-domain. May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.776200] CPU6 attaching NULL sched-domain. May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.776229] CPU7 attaching NULL sched-domain. May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919611] CPU0 attaching sched-domain: May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919668] domain 0: span 0,4 level SIBLING May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919699] groups: 0 (cpu_power = 589) 4 (cpu_power = 589) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919733] domain 1: span 0-7 level MC May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919762] groups: 0,4 (cpu_power = 1178) 1,5 (cpu_power = 1178) 2,6 (cpu_power = 1178) 3,7 (cpu_power = 1178) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919850] CPU1 attaching sched-domain: May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919852] domain 0: span 1,5 level SIBLING May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919881] groups: 1 (cpu_power = 589) 5 (cpu_power = 589) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919912] domain 1: span 0-7 level MC May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.919915] groups: 1,5 (cpu_power = 1178) 2,6 (cpu_power = 1178) 3,7 (cpu_power = 1178) 0,4 (cpu_power = 1178) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920003] CPU2 attaching sched-domain: May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920005] domain 0: span 2,6 level SIBLING May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920033] groups: 2 (cpu_power = 589) 6 (cpu_power = 589) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920065] domain 1: span 0-7 level MC May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920093] groups: 2,6 (cpu_power = 1178) 3,7 (cpu_power = 1178) 0,4 (cpu_power = 1178) 1,5 (cpu_power = 1178) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920155] CPU3 attaching sched-domain: May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920157] domain 0: span 3,7 level SIBLING May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920185] groups: 3 (cpu_power = 589) 7 (cpu_power = 589) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920217] domain 1: span 0-7 level MC May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920245] groups: 3,7 (cpu_power = 1178) 0,4 (cpu_power = 1178) 1,5 (cpu_power = 1178) 2,6 (cpu_power = 1178) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920307] CPU4 attaching sched-domain: May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920335] domain 0: span 0,4 level SIBLING May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920337] groups: 4 (cpu_power = 589) 0 (cpu_power = 589) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920368] domain 1: span 0-7 level MC May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920397] groups: 0,4 (cpu_power = 1178) 1,5 (cpu_power = 1178) 2,6 (cpu_power = 1178) 3,7 (cpu_power = 1178) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920459] CPU5 attaching sched-domain: May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920487] domain 0: span 1,5 level SIBLING May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920489] groups: 5 (cpu_power = 589) 1 (cpu_power = 589) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920520] domain 1: span 0-7 level MC May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920549] groups: 1,5 (cpu_power = 1178) 2,6 (cpu_power = 1178) 3,7 (cpu_power = 1178) 0,4 (cpu_power = 1178) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920611] CPU6 attaching sched-domain: May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920639] domain 0: span 2,6 level SIBLING May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920641] groups: 6 (cpu_power = 589) 2 (cpu_power = 589) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920699] domain 1: span 0-7 level MC May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920701] groups: 2,6 (cpu_power = 1178) 3,7 (cpu_power = 1178) 0,4 (cpu_power = 1178) 1,5 (cpu_power = 1178) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920762] CPU7 attaching sched-domain: May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920791] domain 0: span 3,7 level SIBLING May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920793] groups: 7 (cpu_power = 589) 3 (cpu_power = 589) May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920851] domain 1: span 0-7 level MC May 4 17:46:10 tofu kernel: [ 2241.920853] groups: 3,7 (cpu_power = 1178) 0,4 (cpu_power = 1178) 1,5 (cpu_power = 1178) 2,6 (cpu_power = 1178) May 4 17:46:12 tofu NetworkManager: <info> Sleeping... May 4 17:46:12 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): now unmanaged May 4 17:46:12 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 8 -> 1 (reason 37) May 4 17:46:12 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 37). May 4 17:46:12 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 1984 May 4 17:46:12 tofu kernel: [ 2244.084515] wlan0: deauthenticating from 68:7f:74:23:02:ae by local choice (reason=3) May 4 17:46:12 tofu avahi-daemon[1176]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.1.2 on wlan0. May 4 17:46:12 tofu avahi-daemon[1176]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.2. May 4 17:46:12 tofu avahi-daemon[1176]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. May 4 17:46:12 tofu NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS. May 4 17:46:12 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): cleaning up... May 4 17:46:12 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): taking down device. May 4 17:46:12 tofu avahi-daemon[1176]: Withdrawing address record for 2002:4c6e:638a:0:1e4b:d6ff:fe78:951d on wlan0. May 4 17:46:12 tofu wpa_supplicant[1212]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): now unmanaged May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 8 -> 1 (reason 37) May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 37). May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 1559 May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <WARN> check_one_route(): (eth0) error -34 returned from rtnl_route_del(): Sucess#012 May 4 17:46:13 tofu avahi-daemon[1176]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.1.3 on eth0. May 4 17:46:13 tofu avahi-daemon[1176]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.3. May 4 17:46:13 tofu avahi-daemon[1176]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): cleaning up... May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): taking down device. May 4 17:46:13 tofu avahi-daemon[1176]: Withdrawing address record for 2002:4c6e:638a:0:4a5b:39ff:fe0b:325d on eth0. May 4 17:46:13 tofu NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier now OFF (device state 1)

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• How does Linux blocking I/O actually work?

  - by tgguy

  In Linux, when you make a blocking i/o call like read or accept, what actually happens? My thoughts: the process get taken out of the run queue, put into a waiting or blocking state on some wait queue. Then when a tcp connection is made (for accept) or the hard drive is ready or something for a file read, a hardware interrupt is raised which lets those processes waiting to wake up and run (in the case of a file read, how does linux know what processes to awaken, as there could be lots of processes waiting on different files?). Or perhaps instead of hardware interrupts, the individual process itself polls to check availability. Not sure, help?

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• Shelving &ndash; What is it &ndash; and more importantly, can it help me?

  - by Chris Skardon

  Since we shifted to TFS we’ve had the ability to perform what is known as ‘shelving’. Shelving (whilst not a wholly new topic in the world of SCC) is new to us, and didn’t exist in our previous SCC solution – SVN. Soo… what is it? What? Shelving is a way to check-in but not check-in your code. By shelving you submit a copy of your ‘pending changes’ to the SCC server, (which maintains a list of the shelvesets) and once that is done you can either continue working, or undo your changes, safe in the knowledge that a backup copy exists on the server. You can unshelve your code at any time and get back to the state you were when you shelved. Yer, that is great but why not just check it in?? Shelvesets don’t have to build. The shelveset you put in there could be entirely broken, or it might solve every bug in the system – shelves aren’t continuously integrated so you can shelve anything. Hmmmm… What else? Shelving allows us to do some pretty cool stuff that beforehand was quite frankly a pain. For instance – Gated Check-ins are implemented via the shelving mechanism, when code is checked-in, what you’re actually doing is shelving it, the Build Controller will build the shelveset with the original code and if it succeeds, the code will be committed, if it fails – well – it’s only you that has to fix the code :) Other nice features are things like the ability to share code you are working on… For example, if I was having trouble with a particular piece of code, I could shelve it, and then you (yes you) could then get that shelveset and check out the problem for yourself, and if you fix it?? Well – you could check-it in! Nice, but day-to-day shizzle? Let’s say you’ve been working on your project and your project manager comes over to you and says: “Hey, errr, bad times, there is an urgent bug we need you to fix, it needs to go out now!” (also for this to play out – we’ll need to assume you’re currently working in the 'release’ branch for another bug fix (maybe))… You could undo all your current changes (obviously you’ll probably backup your code using zip or something I imagine) fix the bug, then re-copy your backup over the top, or you could shelve and unshelve. Perhaps some other uses will awaken the shelver in you… :) Before each checkin – if you shelve, you no longer need to worry (if indeed you do) about resolving conflicts and mysteriously losing your code… Going home at night? Not checking in straight away? Why not shelve, this way – should the worst come to the worst and your local pc gives up, you can just get the shelveset onto another machine and be up and running in literally seconds minutes…

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• ISP Config 3 - squirrel login error & how to add an smtp server for sending mails

  - by A Prasetyo

  Hi, Case #1: I have ISPConfig3 running, sending email through telnet server.mydomain.com 25 are possible. Receiving email also possible. BUT!! problem occurs when I try to login to squirrel... I've been awaken for 2 days now and still couldn't figured out why logging in into squirrel always having an error: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. here is the /var/log/mail.log: Jun 3 00:23:27 server-01 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Jun 3 00:23:27 server-01 imapd: chdir /var/vmail/mydomain.com/info: Permission denied Jun 3 00:23:27 server-01 imapd: [email protected]: Permission denied I did chmod 777 & still doesn't work, only another message appeared Jun 3 00:24:28 server-01 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Jun 3 00:24:28 server-01 imapd: [email protected]: Account's mailbox directory is not owned by the correct uid or gid Try to do telnet to IMAP port telnet mydomain.com 143 Trying 63.105.102.48... Connected to mydomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2008 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. login [email protected] mypassword login NO Error in IMAP command received by server. and give no result... -_- I checked mysql.sock, I checked username and password in mysql db, everything is correct.. anyone can help? PLEASE?! Case #2: Does anyone know how to set or to view SMTP settings in ISPConfig 3? thank you..

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• IndyTechFest Recap

  - by Johnm

  The sun had yet to raise above the horizon on Saturday, May 22nd and I was traveling toward the location of the 2010 IndyTechFest. In my freshly awaken, and pre-coffee, state I reflected on the months that preceded this day and how quickly they slipped away. The big day had finally come and the morning dew glistened with a unique brightness that morning. What is this all about? For those who are unfamiliar with IndyTechFest, it is a regional conference held in Indianapolis and hosted by the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association (IndyNDA) and the Indianapolis Professional Association for SQL Server (IndyPASS).  The event presents multiple tracks and sessions covering subjects such as Business Intelligence,  Database Administration, .NET Development, SharePoint Development, Windows Mobile Development as well as non-Microsoft topics such as Lean and MongoDB. This year's event was the third hosting of IndyTechFest. No man is an island No event such as IndyTechFest is executed by a single person. My fellow co-founders, with their highly complementary skill sets and philanthropy make the process very enjoyable. Our amazing volunteers and their aid were indispensible. The generous financial support of our sponsors that made the event and fabulous prizes possible. The spectacular line up of speakers who came from near and far to donate their time and knowledge. Our beloved attendees who sacrificed the first sunny Saturday in weeks to expand their skill sets and network with their peers. We are deeply appreciative. Challenges in preparation With the preparation of any event comes challenges. It is these challenges that makes the process of planning an event so interesting. This year's largest challenge was the location of the event. In the past two years IndyTechFest was held at the Gene B. Glick Junior Achievement Center in Indianapolis. This facility has been the hub of the Indy technical community for many years. As the big day drew near, the facility's availability came into question due to some recent changes that had occurred with those who operated the facility. We began our search for an alternative option. Thankfully, the Marriott Indianapolis East was available, was very spacious and willing to work within the range of our budget. Within days of our event, the decision to move proved to be wise since the prior location had begun renovations to the interior. Whew! Always trust your gut. Every day it's getting better At the ending of each year, we huddle together, review the evaluations and identify an area in which the event could improve. This year's big opportunity for improvement resided in the prize give-away portion at the end of the day. In the 2008 event, admittedly, this portion was rather chaotic, rushed and disorganized. This year, we broke the drawing into two sections, of which each attendee received two tickets. The first ticket was a drawing for the mountain of books that were given away. The second ticket was a drawing for the big prizes, the 2 Xboxes, 3 laptops and iPad. We peppered the ticket drawings with gift card raffles and tossing t-shirts into the audience. If at first you don't succeed, try and try again Each year of IndyTechFest, we have offered a means for ad-hoc sessions or discussion groups to pop-up. To our disappointment it was something that never quite took off. We have always believed that this unique type of session was valuable and wanted to figure out a way to make it work for this year. A special thanks to Alan Stevens, who took on and facilitated the "open space" track and made it an official success. Share with your tweety When the attendee badges were designed we decided to place an emphasis on the attendee's Twitter account as well as the events hash-tag (#IndyTechFest) to encourage some real-time buzz during the day. At the host table we displayed a Twitter feed for all to enjoy. It was quite successful and encouraging use of social media. My badge was missing my Twitter account since it was recently changed. For those who care to follow my rather sparse tweets, my address is @johnnydata. Man, this is one long blog post! All in all it was a very successful event. It is always great to see new faces and meet old friends. The planning for the 2011 IndyTechFest will kick off very soon. We have more capacity for future growth and a truck full of great ideas. Stay tuned!

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• Thread.Interrupt Is Evil

  - by Alois Kraus

  Recently I have found an interesting issue with Thread.Interrupt during application shutdown. Some application was crashing once a week and we had not really a clue what was the issue. Since it happened not very often it was left as is until we have got some memory dumps during the crash. A memory dump usually means WindDbg which I really like to use (I know I am one of the very few fans of it).  After a quick analysis I did find that the main thread already had exited and the thread with the crash was stuck in a Monitor.Wait. Strange Indeed. Running the application a few thousand times under the debugger would potentially not have shown me what the reason was so I decided to what I call constructive debugging. I did create a simple Console application project and try to simulate the exact circumstances when the crash did happen from the information I have via memory dump and source code reading. The thread that was  crashing was actually MS code from an old version of the Microsoft Caching Application Block. From reading the code I could conclude that the main thread did call the Dispose method on the CacheManger class which did call Thread.Interrupt on the cache scavenger thread which was just waiting for work to do. My first version of the repro looked like this   static void Main(string[] args) { Thread t = new Thread(ThreadFunc) { IsBackground = true, Name = "Test Thread" }; t.Start(); Console.WriteLine("Interrupt Thread"); t.Interrupt(); } static void ThreadFunc() { while (true) { object value = Dequeue(); // block until unblocked or awaken via ThreadInterruptedException } } static object WaitObject = new object(); static object Dequeue() { object lret = "got value"; try { lock (WaitObject) { } } catch (ThreadInterruptedException) { Console.WriteLine("Got ThreadInterruptException"); lret = null; } return lret; } I do start a background thread and call Thread.Interrupt on it and then directly let the application terminate. The thread in the meantime does plenty of Monitor.Enter/Leave calls to simulate work on it. This first version did not crash. So I need to dig deeper. From the memory dump I did know that the finalizer thread was doing just some critical finalizers which were closing file handles. Ok lets add some long running finalizers to the sample. class FinalizableObject : CriticalFinalizerObject { ~FinalizableObject() { Console.WriteLine("Hi we are waiting to finalize now and block the finalizer thread for 5s."); Thread.Sleep(5000); } } class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { FinalizableObject fin = new FinalizableObject(); Thread t = new Thread(ThreadFunc) { IsBackground = true, Name = "Test Thread" }; t.Start(); Console.WriteLine("Interrupt Thread"); t.Interrupt(); GC.KeepAlive(fin); // prevent finalizing it too early // After leaving main the other thread is woken up via Thread.Abort // while we are finalizing. This causes a stackoverflow in the CLR ThreadAbortException handling at this time. } With this changed Main method and a blocking critical finalizer I did get my crash just like the real application. The funny thing is that this is actually a CLR bug. When the main method is left the CLR does suspend all threads except the finalizer thread and declares all objects as garbage. After the normal finalizers were called the critical finalizers are executed to e.g. free OS handles (usually). Remember that I did call Thread.Interrupt as one of the last methods in the Main method. The Interrupt method is actually asynchronous and does wake a thread up and throws a ThreadInterruptedException only once unlike Thread.Abort which does rethrow the exception when an exception handling clause is left. It seems that the CLR does not expect that a frozen thread does wake up again while the critical finalizers are executed. While trying to raise a ThreadInterrupedException the CLR goes down with an stack overflow. Ups not so nice. Why has this nobody noticed for years is my next question. As it turned out this error does only happen on the CLR for .NET 4.0 (x86 and x64). It does not show up in earlier or later versions of the CLR. I have reported this issue on connect here but so far it was not confirmed as a CLR bug. But I would be surprised if my console application was to blame for a stack overflow in my test thread in a Monitor.Wait call. What is the moral of this story? Thread.Abort is evil but Thread.Interrupt is too. It is so evil that even the CLR of .NET 4.0 contains a race condition during the CLR shutdown. When the CLR gurus can get it wrong the chances are high that you get it wrong too when you use this constructs. If you do not believe me see what Patrick Smacchia does blog about Thread.Abort and List.Sort. Not only the CLR creators can get it wrong. The BCL writers do sometimes have a hard time with correct exception handling as well. If you do tell me that you use Thread.Abort frequently and never had problems with it I do suspect that you do not have looked deep enough into your application to find such sporadic errors.

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• How to make Flash 'play well with others'?

  - by Sensei James

  What up fam. So this isn't a question asking about memory management schemes; for those of you who may not know, the Flash Virtual Machine relies on garbage collection by using reference counting and mark and sweep (for good coverage of these topics, check out Grant Skinner's article and presentation). And yes, Flash also provides the "delete" operator, which can (unfortunately only) be used to remove the properties of dynamic objects. What I want to know is how to make it so that Flash programs don't continue to consume CPU and memory while running in the background (save loading content or communicating remotely, for example). The motivation for this question comes in part from Apple's ban on cross compiled applications (in its SDK 4) on the grounds that they do not behave as predicted with the multitasking feature central to iPhone OS 4. My intention is not only to make Flash programs that will 'pass muster' as far as multitasking in iPhone OS 4, but also to simply make better (behaving) Flash programs. Put another way, how might a Flash application mimic the multitasking feature of iPhone OS 4? Does the Flash API provide the means for a developer to put their applications to 'sleep' while other programs run, and then to 'awaken' them just as quickly? In our own program, we might do something as crude as detecting when the user has been idle (no mouse motion or key press) for (say) four seconds: var idle_id:uint = setInterval(4000, pause_program); var current_movie_clip:MovieClip; var current_frame:uint; ... // on Mouse move or key press... clearInterval(idle_id); idle_id = setInterval(4000, pause_program); ... function pause_program():void { current_movie_clip = event.target as MovieClip; current_frame = current_movie_clip.currentFrame; MovieClip(root).gotoAndStop("program_pause_screen"); } (on the program pause screen) resume_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, resume_program); function resume_program(event:MouseEvent) { current_movie_clip.gotoAndPlay(current_frame); } If that's the right idea, what's the best way to detect that an application should be shelved? And, more importantly, is it possible for Flash Player to detect that some of its running programs are idle, and to similarly shelve them until the user performs an action to resume them? (Please feel free to answer as much or as little of the many questions I've posed.)

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