This weekend I found that opening too many activities too quickly (I opened about 5 activities before waiting for them to each open); caused my machine to hang miserably. After about 20 minutes of absolutely no response, I held down the power button. There was no virtual terminal or dev teminal, the display was showing half of something it was trying to open, but nothing I could do would get a response.
<br><br>This might be CPU usage as oppose to memory corruption or leaks ... when I rebooted it did come up ok. <br><br>Bug 4483. <br><br>Kim<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Albert Cahalan
</b> <<a href="mailto:acahalan@gmail.com">acahalan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 10/28/07, Jim Gettys <
<a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org">jg@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Albert, can you please see that there are proper trac entries fro any<br>> leaking applications?<br><br>I made one, #4471, for the activity I am aware of.
<br><br>I'm concerned about worse things, like data corruption.<br>Leaks and mere crashes are nothing in comparison.<br>Running out of memory makes allocations fail. When<br>that happens...<br><br>Does JFFS2 corrupt itself? Reiserfs and ext3 have both
<br>suffered from this problem.<br><br>Does the journal corrupt itself? I think it does, though I<br>certainly don't have decent proof yet.<br><br>Does a driver, in kernel or X, start a DMA to the wrong<br>location in memory? (address 0, a previous allocation
<br>that has since been freed, or a clean page that was never<br>locked down and just got discarded by memory pressure)<br><br>BTW, there is also a need for power-loss testing. Do we<br>get corruption if we interrupt etoys/squeak or the journal
<br>at a bad moment? Power loss will certainly happen.<br>This could use an automated test rig.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org
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