# More on my crash

Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:39:04 PST

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    Judy Anderson writes:
    > I tailed the .db.PANIC and found that the last successfully dumped
    > thing was a verb.  I looked once the backup was up, and the next verb
    > on that object is a verb with 650 lines of code, #103344:@autoport.
    > Presumably that's why it was trying to allocate more memory---is
    > dumping a large verb like that all that hard?  Should it *not* be
    > trying to allocate memory during the dump process?

    It's not all that hard to dump a large verb, but it *does* involve allocating a
    fair amount of storage; the server does decompilation by converting the opcode
    stream into a parse tree and then pretty-printing that tree.

    My guess is that we simply ran out of swap space on lambda, which is of course
    a real pain.

    	Pavel