[plt-dev] "The PLT Virtual Machine is out of memory. Aborting."

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 19 18:11:31 EST 2009

That is the out of memory message no ...? I'm confused.

On 2/19/09, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I have memory limits turned off anyway, because it used to be that if
> I ran something that triggered a planet package install the memory
> limit would crash the install and leave my planet cache in a bad
> state.  It may be that's no longer the case, and I should put the
> memory limit back on.  Nevertheless, since I run with unlimited
> memory, the fact that I ran out before I hit an artificial limit
> doesn't indicate where the bug happened.
>
> --Carl
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I asked because check syntax doesn't install memory limits when it
>> runs, only run does. Perhaps your tool is doing the same thing?
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> No, though I might have just triggered the theorem prover, which uses
>>> the same hook to compile the program as check syntax
>>> (drscheme:eval:expand-program), if that's relevant.
>>>
>>> --Carl
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Robby Findler
>>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>>> Were you running check syntax?
>>>>
>>>> Robby
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>>> DrScheme gave me the error message in the subject -- I wish I had
>>>>> copied or screenshotted it, but I was so surprised to see it I just
>>>>> clicked "OK" to see what it would do, so I may have the wording
>>>>> slightly wrong.  Anyway, DrScheme promptly crashed (and Mac OS gave me
>>>>> to "quit unexpectedly dialog") when I hit "OK".
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't recall doing anything intensive when that happened, I was just
>>>>> running a program I had run before (in Dracula).  Anyone know what
>>>>> might have happened, or what further information I should look for to
>>>>> help diagnose this?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Carl Eastlund
>


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