New images up with fixes

[Brian Rice]

Just to be clear, it's not "during" memory allocation. The "growing  
heap" message is done instantaneously when the VM just raises the  
maximum heap size. What's happening is that some part of the standard  
library is going into in infinite loop.

This can be isolated by varying the bootstrap to produce interactive  
messages, which I can do if necessary (send me an email if you want  
to play tester - I'll send you an image that will spit out messages  
between each library, and then fine-tune the granularity as  
possible), but I'd prefer an analysis done with a C/C++ debugger and  
enough knowledge of the VM to identify what messages are being sent  
(or what's going on in the VM to make it break). The one stack trace  
sent by Bryn Keller indicates a memory manager issue, but I am not  
sure at all that this is a relevant slice of the stack without more  
information, nor am I sure why such a thing would happen or what  
would constitute the violated behavior or a fix.

In short, to keep the Windows builds going, we need a Windows  
developer or tester to put some time in on this.

On Jun 2, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Bill Sun wrote:

> Well, time for some update on Windows...
>
> Unfortunately, I still "freeze" during memory
> allocation in bootstrap, with 100% cpu usage as Attila
> mentioned.
>
> Are there any more confirmations to this?
>
> --- Brian Rice <water at tunes.org> wrote:
>
>
>> There was a bug where intern called on a Symbol
>> would return a new un-
>> interned Symbol. This has been fixed.
>>
>> This image set should have all the latest bug-fixes
>> so /may/ provide
>> some help to those experiencing the current problem
>> on Windows
>> (sorry, I don't have a definite fix yet until some
>> deeper
>> investigation is done by Windows users or myself if
>> I can get an
>> emulation or real XP installation going).
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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--
-Brian