Steven Timm wrote:
Are you saying that such a port-mucker could either (1) put the collector into a wierd state such as we saw or (2) even crash it?
Yes to (1). I don't know of a specific case for (2), but it is not inconceivable.
There is a plan to improve the situation, in the general 6.9 series focus on switching to non-blocking behaviors.
--Dan