[hobbit] bbgen program crashed?

Dean Casey dcasey at pathfire.com
Thu Oct 5 22:43:58 CEST 2006


>>On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:26:52AM -0400, Dean Casey wrote:

>> My guess would be that in a running server, some images or libraries
in
>> memory that won't match what's on disk if you do a recompile without
>> first shutting down any running Hobbit processes.

>It generally a good thing to shut down while running the "make install"
>that copies the executables into place - as you say, some systems are
>not quite fond of having the running executables disappear.

>But I cannot really see why it would affect the "bbgen" program, which
>only runs for a few seconds (at the most) every minute.

Nor can I - unless maybe the system Jason is using (I forget which OS he
said he was running) hasn't gotten around to flushing that image out of
the particular pages in physical memory? Or, I could just be talking out
of my hat & this specific point could be due to another issue entirely.
=D

>Regards,
>Henrik

Dean






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