Hi,

a researcher at our department starts multiple Maple programs in parallel on our Linux servers.

Sometimes a high percentage of the resulting mserver processes hang. ps shows their state as

SNl (sleeping, multithreaded). strace to the processes shows that every one is waiting on a

futex without timeout. The problem occurs in versions 16 and 18. This is annoying.

Is there a fix for this?

Matthias Bauer