[Haskell-cafe] thread killed

[Gregory Collins]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:37 AM, tsuraan <tsuraan at gmail.com> wrote:

> What sorts of things can cause a thread to get an asynchronous "thread
> killed" exception?  I've been seeing rare, inexplicable "thread
> killed" messages in my Snap handlers for a long time, but they aren't
> from Snap's timeout code.  I recently upgraded to ghc 7.4.1, and that
> caused the kills to happen a lot more often, but also gave me some
> traceback capabilities.  I tracked the most common kills down to
> cryptohash's Crypto.Hash.Tiger.update function, but that's about as
>

That's probably not where the threadKill is being sent *from*, it's where
your thread received it.



> pure a FFI function can be, so I don't know how that would be causing
> anything weird to happen.  I also sometimes get the kills in the
> Tiger.finalize function, and I get other ones in functions that I
> haven't been able to track down yet.  Given that the thread kills
> aren't from Snap's timeout code (they happen in under a second, and I
> have snap's timeouts turned to an insanely high value), what sort of
> other things cause ThreadKilled exceptions?
>

It's hard to rule Snap timeouts out; try building snap-core with the
"-fdebug" flag and running your app with "DEBUG=1", you'll get a spew of
debugging output from Snap on stderr.

G
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Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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