Lost events bug in kqueue?

Hi all,
I have been trying to track down some odd behavior in a multithreaded mac os x program in which the program gets stuck waiting for events on files forever. I wrote a small C program that exhibits the same problem and I think that this may be causing the problem in my original program, too.
The test program is a tiny "web server" and you can find it here: https://github.com/AndreasVoellmy/epollbug/blob/master/kqueueserver.c
The test program simply creates NUM_WORKER+1 threads where 1 thread runs a loop to accept new connections and the other NUM_WORKER "worker" threads actually serve the connections. Note that the accept thread distributes the accepted TCP connections among the different workers and the workers serve disjoint sets of connections. Each worker thread runs a loop that uses kevent64 to wait for any of its sockets to be readable and uses the EV_ONESHOT flag when adding sockets to the watched files.
I test the program using the http server benchmarking program weighttp (http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki). I run it like this:
./weighttp -n 100 -c 10 -t 4 -k "10.12.0.8:8080"
where the IP address and port are where my test program are runnning. -n is the number of requests to make, -c is the number of concurrent requests to make and -t is the number of threads that weighttp will use to generate the http requests. weighttp makes the requests but gets stuck with some responses never coming back. For example, on a run with the above parameters, I get:
weighttp - a lightweight and simple webserver benchmarking tool
starting benchmark...
spawning thread #1: 3 concurrent requests, 25 total requests
spawning thread #2: 3 concurrent requests, 25 total requests
spawning thread #3: 2 concurrent requests, 25 total requests
spawning thread #4: 2 concurrent requests, 25 total requests
progress:   8% done
progress: 16% done
progress: 24% done
progress: 32% done
progress: 40% done
progress: 48% done
progress: 56% done
progress: 64% done
progress: 72% done
progress: 80% done
progress: 88% done
progress: 96% done
finished in 728 sec, 373 millisec and 310 microsec, 0 req/s, 0 kbyte/s
requests: 100 total, 100 started, 100 done, 95 succeeded, 5 failed, 0 errored
status codes: 95 2xx, 0 3xx, 0 4xx, 0 5xx
traffic: 30685 bytes total, 16340 bytes http, 14345 bytes data
In other words, 5 requests failed to get responses. On the test program (i.e. server) side, after 10 seconds, the test program prints out (using ioctl) which sockets have any data ready. Sure enough, I see that 5 sockets have a request waiting (weighttp requests are 90 bytes long):
socket 6 has 90 bytes of data ready
socket 8 has 90 bytes of data ready
socket 10 has 90 bytes of data ready
socket 12 has 90 bytes of data ready
socket 14 has 90 bytes of data ready
I would really appreciate getting some advice and help on this problem. I may be misunderstanding the semantics of kqueue operations and flags, or this may be a kernel bug. By the way, this program is based on a very similar program I wrote, which uncovered a bug in Linux, which has since been fixed (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1301.0/00065.html). To Linux's credit, the bug only appeared using lots of cores, whereas on os x it appears to occur using just two cores and two threads!
Regards,
Andi
P.S. in case it helps I also took a "sample" of the kqueueserver program at the point that it was waiting on the sockets while the sockets have data ready. Here is the result:
Sampling process 17982 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling kqueueserver (pid 17982) every 1 millisecond
Process:         kqueueserver [17982]
Path:            /Users/andre/repos/epollbug/kqueueserver
Load Address:    0x10b22b000
Identifier:      kqueueserver
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: bash [17853]
Date/Time:       2013-02-06 17:22:26.909 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C3012)
Report Version: 7
Call graph:
    2665 Thread_568458   DispatchQueue_1: com.apple.main-thread (serial)
    + 2665 start (in libdyld.dylib) + 1 [0x7fff9099c7e1]
    +   2665 main (in kqueueserver) + 85 [0x10b22cb15]
    +     2665 acceptLoop (in kqueueserver) + 334 [0x10b22c6ee]
    +       2665 __accept (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10 [0x7fff8eff9996]
    2665 Thread_568459
    + 2665 thread_start (in libsystem_c.dylib) + 13 [0x7fff85c63181]
    +   2665 _pthread_start (in libsystem_c.dylib) + 327 [0x7fff85c76742]
    +     2665 workerLoop (in kqueueserver) + 95 [0x10b22c8cf]
    +       2665 kevent64 (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10 [0x7fff8effad2a]
    2665 Thread_568460
      2665 thread_start (in libsystem_c.dylib) + 13 [0x7fff85c63181]
        2665 _pthread_start (in libsystem_c.dylib) + 327 [0x7fff85c76742]
          2665 workerLoop (in kqueueserver) + 95 [0x10b22c8cf]
            2665 kevent64 (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10 [0x7fff8effad2a]
Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
        kevent64 (in libsystem_kernel.dylib)        5330
        __accept (in libsystem_kernel.dylib)        2665
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Sample analysis of process 17982 written to file /dev/stdout

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I regularly make time machine backups, and last year the following happened:
12 July 2012 - Time Machine Backup
29 July 2012 - Import a new event to IPhoto
30 August 2012 - Import a new event to IPhoto
29 September 2012 - Time Machine Backup
19 October 2012 - Time Machine Backup
I know the two events imported successfully because I used them to upload a select few photo's to FB and I also ordered a few from photobox.
This week I viewed the 19 October backup and the two events are missing, they are also missing from the September backup. I have noticed that both the iphoto backup files in Sep and Oct say last modified on 12 July 2012 which is a bit wierd.
I've tried TestDisk and PhotoRecovery, and also bought DiskDrill, I recovered over 60,000 jpegs but these two events have completely disappeared. I ran the software recovery on the MacBook HardDrive, the TimeMachine Harddrive and my camera. No luck on any of them.
The camera is a Lumix Panasonic DMC-FZ38 in case that matters.
If anyone has any idea whats gone wrong, I'd be grateful of some help so I dont lose any more photos. I've tried the Genius Bar at Apple but my helper didn't know what to suggest.
Cheers

A couple of things as you note TM is not an archive system. It is a back up system and anything removed from the computer will eventually be removed from the backup
Also TM is not designed to be run occasionally. It should always be running doing hourly backups. Running it the way you do totally defeats it purpose and because each run has so many changes makes it much more likely to have problems are for you to lose track of what you have. Based on your dates I'm guessing that for some reason a number of your runs failed and you missed or ignored the failure notices
And note that TM could not delete an event. It could fail to complete a backup so the latest library is not backed up or it can delete so older library so old events go away but is can not parse the iPhoto library and remove an event
I strongly suggest you use TM the way it was designed and leave it always running
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