Hi! As John pointed out, you should try a newer version (darcs repo or the latest snapshot).
There still seems to be a problem when finalizers are created faster than they can be processed. Try setting C_MAX_PENDING_FINALIZERS in chicken.h to a higher value (and touch runtime.c and library.c) - I will make this a runtime parameter in the future. cheers, felix On 5/1/05, Alejandro Forero Cuervo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are finalizers actually getting called? > > One of my applications recently started crashing. After a few days of > debugging it (it misteriously crashes at random points after it has > been running for 40 minutes), I noticed that if I removed its use of > the iconv egg, it wouldn't crash. Unable to find any bugs in the > iconv egg, I made it print the addresses of the pointers it mallocs. > Voila: they go up and up and up until around 0xbf000000 (yes, and > my process has a virtual memory space of around 3G) and then malloc > starts returning small addresses and the process crashes quickly. > > This crash is easy to reproduce: after use'ing srfi-1 and iconv, > evaluate the following expression repeatedly in CSI: > > (for-each (lambda a (iconv-open "us-ascii" "us-ascii")) (iota 10000)) > > Watch memory usage grow up and up... > > Interestingly, the following expression does not trigger the problem: > > (do () (#f) (iconv-open "us-ascii" "us-ascii")) > > As a sideline, would it be too difficult to have Chicken print an "out > of memory" message instead of crashing when no more memory is > available? > > I'm using Chicken 1.89, but I think 1.66 is affected as well (I > upgraded to 1.89 after my application started crashing). > > Thanks! > > Alejo. > http://bachue.com/alejo > > ---=( Comunidad de Usuarios de Software Libre en Colombia )=--- > ---=( http://bachue.com/colibri )=--=( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )=--- > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users > _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
