From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] Reliable 9vx(.OSX) crash From: "Russ Cox" Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:50:31 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1d5d51400807311638g4087f5c9qc2c24000acfa6fe5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20080801024830.173D21E8C3B@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f98a5fb8-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Does this also affect 9vx.Linux version. it affects linux, but not the 0.12 binaries. > I have been testing a few > ports under it and it seems to crash in different places. I have not > been able to isolate the type of code causes it so I did not report it > on the list. It does seem to happen when I allocate a huge amount of > memory for a dense matrix. It will start slowing down and closes. > > I haven't tried getting an update from hg tip. I have been trying to > avoid installing mercurial to get to the hg tip. Any chance we can get > a scheduled archive of the 9vx.* just like p9p? 9vx is still experimental software. if you are going to run it, i would suggest installing mercurial. there are still random things not working right, both on linux and os x. it is not as stable as i would like. once it is more stable i will think about making automatic archives, but i'd really rather that for now, regular users can update easily. the 0.12 binaries don't have a pager, so if you run them out of memory they will probably crash. if you run with -t you can at least see the error messages. russ