o Reliability of the Solaris threads support for parallel processing is only
marginally questionable.  Previous bugs involving Solaris threads seem to have
been fixed, as the Solaris versions have been beaten upon more extensively
without crashing due to the Alarm clock error.  In your hands, if the programs
should abort their search with an "Alarm clock" message, please let me know and
please make sure that you compiled all of the code involved -- from the NCBI
Toolbox all the way through the blastapp programs -- with the -mt option of the
SunSoft C compiler.  Alarm clock aborts can be avoided altogether by specifying
the "progress=0" option, which disables the responsible feature.

Please send bug reports to:  gish *AT* watson.wustl.edu

Warren Gish
Dept. of Genetics
Washington University School of Medicine
4444 Forest Park Ave., Campus Box 8501
St. Louis, MO 63108