Re: lynx-dev Table troubles

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Robert Mognet wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Using lynx2.8.4dev.18 with patch-lynx2.8.4dev.18c-p1 applied.
> 
> Trying to access the following URL: (34580 bytes)
> 
>       <http://physics.uchicago.edu/x_astro.html>
> 
> causes lynx to eat all the machine's memory.

I tried this and saw it max-out at 80Mb (seemed to be in some sort of
infinite loop).  My impression is that it's trying to iterate toward
the proper configuration of the tables, but isn't converging - either
an error in the algorithm, or not efficient.  (After dev.19, I'll
see if it would be not be too hard to maintain old/new TRST's ifdef'd)

> 
> The kernel complains:
> 
> "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for [all running processes]"
> 
> accompanied by lots of disk thrashing - I assume the kernel is
> trying to swap everything it can.  Interrupting lynx with 
> ctrl-C eventually works and after a while things settle down.
> Have tried several times with the same result.
> 
> Retrieving the file with wget and looking at the html, the
> page is composed of one large table containing three inner tables.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert
> 
> 
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