[Help-smalltalk] Re: Playing with the VM Limits, crash on many processes

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On 11/21/2010 11:48 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/20/2010 06:30 PM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>> I created the attached torture test to get a feeling of how many processes I
>> can create and if my planned approach would work. With about 100.000 
>> processes
>> I ran into a crash inside the GC. Compiling GST without support for the
>> generational GC seem not to crash.
> 
> How much time does it take to crash?  Does it happen even without the printNl.

It crashes without the printNl, it needs the call to delay wait. I can create
the Delay for each process once and it is still crashing, it also needs a lot
of processes to force this crash. It crashes within 30 seconds or such.

I am going to try your approach with GDB, watchpoints and continuing a couple
of times and see if I can get it to crash and have gdb right there. I might
also try reverse debugging...