[slime-devel] GC freeze up with CMUCL

[Tom Pierce]

I just started running CVS Slime with CMUCL 19a on Debian this week and I
have the problem too.  I don't know a fix, however.

On 4/10/06, David Trudgett <wpower at zeta.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Monday 2006-04-10 at 13:28:05 +0200, Mario S.Mommer wrote:
> >
> > I've had no problems with slime _whatsoever_, and don't remember
> > ever hitting a bug. The only things that have happened to me is that
> > I discover by accident yet another feature :-)
>
> I used to have trouble-free slime, too, but ever since December or so,
> on both Debian and Red Hat systems, I've been getting periodic "freeze
> ups" where I have to SIGTERM the lisp process and re-run M-x slime. It
> was only recently (when I read someone's comment -- here?) that I
> realised this occurs when CMUCL does its garbage collection. Turning
> GC off avoids the situation.
>
> Does anyone know the solution to this?
>
> Failing that, is there a quick and easy way to restart slime to get a
> fresh lisp image? (A sort of manual garbage collection! ;-))
>
> I'm using recent CVS slime (various since December) and Emacs 21.4.1,
> with CMUCL 19a.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
>
> --
> David Trudgett
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>
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