Re: [Chicken-hackers] strange error message, please help with interpretation

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 01:33:50PM +0100, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> * Jörg F. Wittenberger <address@hidden> [130309 12:26]:
> > I'm afraid I have no idea how I could boil this down to a reproducible
> > case.
> > 
> > I've seen it once so far in a logfile of a process, which xreates
> > approximately 2000000 threads a day when communicating over WAN
> > with about ten peers plus all those public web access (approx.
> > since chicken does not have unique thread numbers, but rscheme
> > does; when I run the rscheme version instead I see thos 2^6 threads;
> > though the chicken version has a different runtime behavior and does
> > not share 100% of the code, hence it could use a different amount of
> > threads.)
> 
> I am confused. I thought you were wondering about a compilation
> message you get during the flow analysis of the scrutinizer.

As I understood it, it's an exception's message upon an error at
runtime.  I think this may be an off-by-one error somewhere resulting
in data corruption.  I've seen similar mystifying error messages when
the stack wasn't quite right; alomst everything is fine except it tells
you something is wrong.

You're right; if this can't be easily reproduced, we're unlikely to find
a root cause.  A core dump and access to the machine might help, but
I'm unsure it crashes this hard.

Cheers,
Peter
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