I believe I’ve run afoul of a timing issue in wxruby that might explain
some
peoples’ segfaults.
I have a radio button page as part of a notebook that selects a file to
read
in, which triggers a whole lot of other changes, including a rebuild of
one
of the other notebook pages.
If I’m slow and deliberate (like 2+ seconds between clicks) it all
works
fine. However, if I click faster, I WILL get a segfault. Since my
printed
puts statements are all executing, my processing is being completed.
Unfortunately, it appears that there is still background processing
occurring at either the wxruby or wxW level that is not protected
against
such occurrences.
How can I test for this and either defer the click processing or veto
it?
How can I test for this and either defer the click processing or veto it?
I think the main problem is that the integration with the garbage
collector is buggy and if enough stuff happens between when your object
becomes garbage and when it is actually collected some data structures
become corrupted. For example, I can completely avoid the segfaults in http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=28871&group_id=35&atid=218
by immediately calling GC.start() after destroying the temporary
windows, and the probability of a segfault goes down if I decrease the
timer interval so it runs more often so more stuff gets allocated and
the collector runs more often.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Florian H. [email protected] wrote:
windows, and the probability of a segfault goes down if I decrease the
timer interval so it runs more often so more stuff gets allocated and
the collector runs more often.
That does make a scary kind of sense. I reconstitute an entire tab book
page with hundreds of elements on it, and of course the old elements
become
garbage.
if this is known-buggy, and nobody knows a better way to identify
completion
of the cleanup, I’ll have to rig another timer to defer the new
operations
for a few seconds.
I’ll add the explicit call like you suggest, too, Florian. Thanks for
the
understanding and tips.
