Re: NSE: odd output, testing, etc

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

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On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:46:21 -0700 or thereabouts "Patrick Donnelly"
<batrick.donnelly () gmail com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:34 PM, David Fifield
> <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > So it sounds like the scripts are running and blocking fine. The
> > only problem is that they tend to time out before they get a chance
> > to do anything. Brandon said that after one round of scanning with
> > more than 300 script threads running, in the next round NSE locks
> > immediately. Could something about timing out scripts be corrupting
> > the Lua state? The problem goes away when r11122 is reverted. That
> > was the change that made use of a persistent Lua state.
>
> I need more information than NSE locking up on the second scan to
> determine the cause. As far as I know Brandon hasn't had this problem
> anymore after I corrected the threads improperly finishing because of
> time outs.

Reverting r11122 kept the problem from propagating to later NSE scans
but as Patrick mentioned, properly handling thread timeouts completely
eliminated the problem.

Brandon

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