From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-06-06T01:40:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinite Loop


"Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:pan.2003.06.05.15.49.19.101201@sneakemail.com...
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:14:09 +0000, George Moschovitis wrote:
> > I 've written a fairly big ruby programm that works mostly ok.
> > Sometimes the programm seems to enter an infinite loop :( Does anyone
> > have a neat idea, how to debug this problem? Perhaps there is a hook
> > in the interpreter to count recursive method calls that I can exploit
> > or something similar?
>
> In interactive GUI applications I tried similar things. In console
> applications I have no problems locating infinit loops.
> I think I need more info about your project in order to help.
>
> Which kind of application are you working on ?
> * interactive GUI app.
> * mod_ruby dynamic-html stuff.
> * non-interactive application.
>
> Are your using mutexes, semaphores, processes, threads ?

Also: goes CPU utilization up or down. i.e., does it hang or spin
endlessly?

    robert