It should stop and wait for a signal on either of those two. Due to a few logical inversions it boils down to replacing || with &&
OLD _block->set((!_requestList.empty() || !_pager->_databasePagerThreadPaused));
NEW _block->set((!_requestList.empty() && !_pager->_databasePagerThreadPaused));//release the threads to run IF (work_to_be_done && not_paused)
This bug is present since svn rev 8663 (just before 2.6.0 release)
attached is a zip with the files:
OpenSceneGraph\include\osgDB\ImagePager
This file is valid for svn branch and stable 3.2 and 3.4
branches 2.6 - 3.0 have the same bug, but other differences in the file."
git-svn-id: http://svn.openscenegraph.org/osg/OpenSceneGraph/trunk@15125 16af8721-9629-0410-8352-f15c8da7e697