Re: [Chicken-users] help with intermittent crash (?)

[Rick Taube]

thanks for the help, felix! i found a fairly reliable way of  
triggering the bug yesterday, unfortunatly when i trigger it the only  
way to recover is to literally reboot my machine, kill simply wont  
kill the app that point, i cant even log out!

im using chicken 2.731, ill switch to trunk and compile with  
debugging turned on.


> - Is storage consumption constant (top(1)) over a longer run?

pretty sure but ive only used top occasionally. ive been testing with  
that same little example that doesnt do much...

> - Try to run with different stack-sizes. The stack-allocation pattern


I noticed yesterday that if i change heap size 4x larger than default  
i cant seem to trigger the crash. but when the bug happens there is  
no message about heap size running out so im not sure what this means.

> - Try to run with different stack-sizes. The stack-allocation pattern


ok this is easy enough, so should i keep the heap fixed at the  
default size while i play with stack size?

> setting C_heap_size_is_fixed to 1


ok i can do that in my thread init (im embedding chicken in an app)

> We have to disable optimizations.

how do i do that?

thansk for your pointers, ill recompile chicken now, and try building  
on linux later today.