Re: (ITS#4738) hdb livelock

[hyc@symas.com]

richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu wrote:
> Please visit 
> https://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~richton/richton-20061107-livelock_2.txt for 
> an updated backtrace. This one almost looks like it has lock contention, 
> and a writewaiter assert is notably missing...

The trace shows several threads backing off because they think some 
other thread is about to read the entry from the database. At a guess, 
none of them is actually going to perform the database read. Most likely 
a lock is missing here.

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