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by sundarurfriend 1381 days ago
> anytime you get a bug your session goes away

This only happens for Segmentation fault type crashes which kill the entire Julia process, which shouldn't be common at all. Can you describe when you experience these issues?
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crabbygrabby 1381 days ago
It's super easy to get ooms and seg. Faults in Julia. For a while there this past year you couldn't even Ctrl c to stop the Julia process. It's rough for real work imo. Fine for research.
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mindB 1381 days ago
I don't remember C-c being broken in the past year. Could it have just been a specific program you were running with a tight loop that didn't have any yield points? If so, that's not really unique to Julia.

I'd also be interested in your workload that was generating lots of seg faults (oom makes some sense if working with large data since Julia's runtime does add an unfortunate amount of memory overhead.

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crabbygrabby 1381 days ago
Check the version summaries. Think it was Julia 171 or something. There's lots of bugs like that that crop up every other release.

Segfaults happen all the time with FFI. But yea OOM is a killer. Julia runtime guzzles RAM, but pkg add any of the sciml stuff and watch your RAM explode. Doesn't take much data to lose a half hour of your life installing a package...

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ChrisRackauckas 1380 days ago
The RAM usage is because precompilation runs in parallel. If you have like 16 threads going then yes it'll parallelize that over 16 times. But we have never seen a half hour package install, can you share the info to reproduce it?
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forgotpwd16 1380 days ago
On my decade old laptop `using Plots` (precompilation) takes a couple of minutes. Not half an hour but it may feel like that if someone is used to Python (or R) where imports are instantaneous. Though I think GP meant takes that much due to OOMs which may result in frozen or slow system.
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ChrisRackauckas 1380 days ago
A couple of minutes is expected. Even R and Python packages have to run the build processes for the associated C and Fortran codes, and those take similar time (or more for many packages). However, if a Julia package is precompiling for more than half an hour, that's not expected and I'd like to see a reproducer for this so we can fix it.
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crabbygrabby 1380 days ago
See my above comment for clarification
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crabbygrabby 1380 days ago
It's not a half hour package install. It's a half hour of loading everything back in to get to where you were because the runtime dropped sorry for the lack of clarity. But yea, it's real easy for pkg installs to oom people.
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