On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Allen Zhao wrote:
>
> > Now I allow simultaneous download with several threads, (still regulated
> > with a semaphore count), it turns out there will be a dead lock when some
> > slow sites are visited. It started the libcurl call, but never time-out,
> > effectively lock the semaphore.
>
> At what point does it stall? And you have a set time-out with CURLOPT_TIMEOUT?

I have time-out set no less than 60 sec, both the connect timeout and
timeout option.

The stall happens only with slow sites on curl_easy_perform(). Never
return.

Funny thing is that if I only limit one thread to run at a time, there is
no stall observed.

Best regards,

Allen Zhao

>
> > Is there any known issues along this line?
>
> No.
>
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Received on 2005-11-05