[Libevent-users] Re: Infinite loop in libevent-1.4.14b-stable

[Daniel Janzon <janzon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Daniel Janzon <janzon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Sorry to bother you with a problem in an old release, but I'd
> appreciate any hints on this one. I've got a pretty large piece of
> software based on libevent-1.4.14b-stable, which usually is really
> solid. But in one load test I got stuck in the while loop in
> event.c:timeout_process():
>
> [...]
>
> What I don't understand is why it is removed from
> base->activequeues[ev->ev_pri] in event_del() / event_queue_remove().
> I would have imagined it should have been removed from base->timeheap.
> So maybe the bug is that EVLIST_TIMEOUT is not set in event_del?

I set the timeout flag in the debugger and the program got out of the
loop and continued. And it is responsive and not totally corrupt. I
wonder what happened...

/Daniel
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