Gregory, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Next time we meet, drinks are on me! Andy On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Gregory J. Sharp wrote: > Andy, > > We think we found the bug. It is in XrdOdcManager.cc > > There is a method called whatsUp() that sometimes may not release a > lock. The unlock should be outside the if. It is called from > XrdOdcFinder if a send fails. And that creates a dangling lock. > > We found thread 15 waiting for the lock at XrdOdcManager.cc line 107 > (myData.lock()) while thread 7 held the lock but was sleeping waiting > for new work. > > I will test with a fixed version of whatsUp() > -- > Gregory J. Sharp email: [log in to unmask] > Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory url: > http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~gregor > Dryden Rd ph: +1 607 255 4882 > Ithaca, NY 14853 fax: +1 607 255 8062 > >