Subj : Build instructions for Windows
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jul 31 2021 16:57:23

  Re: Build instructions for Windows
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Jul 31 2021 02:19 pm

 >   Re: Build instructions for Windows
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Jul 23 2021 03:24 pm
 >
 >  DM> Great, would love to get the root-cause of any crashing bugs. :-)
 >
 > Interesting thing, I've been running my debug build of Synchronet with
 > Visual Studio's debugger monitoring it now for 6 days and it hasn't crashed
 > yet.. Before this, it seemed it was randomly crashing after anywhere between
 > several hours to a couple days or so.  So I'm still not sure what's
 > triggering the crash.  I'm wodnering if there's anything different about the
 > debug build where the crash might not be triggered with this build..

Debug builds run slower than non-debug builds and that can sometimes prevent crash-causing race conditions from occurring. But those bugs are fairly rare. There are other differences in debug builds (e.g. optimizations disabled), so you could try running a release (non-debug) build instead and see if the problem seems to happen more often.

 > I am running my BBS in a virtual machine, and I increased the VM specs a
 > little bit to allow it to run Visual Studio's debugger more easily without
 > the VM getting slow.  I increased the VM CPU core count from 1 to 2, and
 > increased the RAM from 2GB to about 3.5GB.  I'm not sure if that would make
 > a difference with the particular crash I was seeing.

Increasing RAM can also impact performance of applications, impacting the timing which may cause or prevent crash-causing race conditions from happening. I don't *think* it would impact the JavaScript heap (that's a configurable value in sbbs) - but JS crashes related to the heap and garbage collection are *not* rare, so sometimes chaing the JS heap ("MaxBytes") can change the occurrence of some bugs.

 > They say the watched pot never boils..  But who knows, maybe it will crash
 > right after I send this message.. :P

Good luck!
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