Threading on Fedora Core

[Dan Trainor]

Hello, all -

I'm sorry that my question here is so broad, depending on many, many 
factors and variables.  However, I'm kindof out of options here.

We're developing a piece of software in-house that utilizes threading. 
This software also implements SSL via OpenSSL for end-to-end TLSv1 
security.  The encryption itself works well, but the threading does not. 
  Every client that connects to this application, the time to process 
goes up by about one second.

I've managed to re-compile the openssl-0.9.7a-35 source RPM making it 
explicitly compile in threaded support, un-installed the existing RPM, 
and re-installed my custom RPM, but when running the test code listed in 
OpenSSL's threads(3) man page to test for threads, we've seen that 
threads are somehow disabled - even after rebuilding this RPM.  I'm 
almost totally lost here, as I am not a programmer.

I guess what I'm asking here is if anyone knows of any other issues that 
Fedora Core has had with threading applications, or if these symptoms 
are just the result of shotty coding on our side?  Has anyone ever ran 
into any errors with threading on Fedora Core, specifically threading 
with OpenSSL support?

Thanks again for your time. Any kind of help at all would be great.
-dant