Re: [9fans] freeze

[Martin Harriss <martin@Princeton.EDU>]

Boyd Roberts wrote:
> 
> from time to time, when i run a meta-mk on python i get
> a freeze;  rio chokes and ^t^tr doesn't even work. fortunately kfs doesn't smashed itself, even though i have backups.
> 
> i _suspect_ it's a memory related problem.
> 
> is this a known problem?

FWIW, I've recently seen what happens when a terminal runs out of
memory.  (I was trying to use upas/fs on a large POP mailbox:)  The fs
process chews up all the memory, gets a trap and becomes broken (still
using memory.)  If I then try and run a command from a rio window, the
command fails (no memory to fork the new process.)  This appears to get
the system very upset, and it panics shortly thereafter.

(This did actually prompt me to clean up my mailbox, but I still don't
think I've got it small enough to make upas/fs happy.  Need to try IMAP
next.)

Martin