Ok, with the new knowledge of building debugging versions in a seperate install tree, the ext/threads/shared/t/wait test is _still_ hanging on my test box. But this time I have forced an external coredump (don't you just love kill -11 ;-) This is the coredump. This is most likely the main thread. There were no other processes listed in top (this is one of those Linuxes where threads don't have pids anymore ;-( ) #0 0xffffe002 in ?? () #1 0x4001a8f1 in Perl_ithread_join (my_perl=0x8192838, obj=0x82987bc) at threads.xs:567 #2 0x4001b3df in XS_threads_join (my_perl=0x8192838, cv=0x8212044) at threads.xs:685 #3 0x080dde73 in Perl_pp_entersub (my_perl=0x8192838) at pp_hot.c:2840 #4 0x080bb7bf in Perl_runops_debug (my_perl=0x8192838) at dump.c:1438 #5 0x08065225 in S_run_body (my_perl=0x8192838, oldscope=1) at perl.c:1857 #6 0x08064c8f in perl_run (my_perl=0x8192838) at perl.c:1776 #7 0x0805fd37 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfffe664, env=0xbfffe670) at perlmain.c:86 #8 0x42015574 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Some machine info: $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2799.569 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm bogomips : 5583.66 LizThread Next