Re: [9fans] Reliable 9vx(.OSX) crash

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

The hg web interface can automatically provide tarballs of the latest
tip, simply add: allow_archive = bz2 zip to your
hgweb.config (there is a way to do this per-project, but I don't remember how).

For an example of how it works see http://repo.cat-v.org/hg/

uriel

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
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