Re: Stack Overflow
Re: Stack Overflow
- Subject: Re: Stack Overflow
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:06:50 +0000
- Thread-topic: Stack Overflow
All the dialog says is "Stack Overflow"
The dialog stays on screen with no time out forever (until someone clears it
or restarts the machine).
The dialog is owned by the applescript applet.
I wonder why it's not trappable
On 12/1/14 2:15 p.m., "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
> How do you know the problem is a stack overflow? What¹s the exact text of the
> dialog? If it actually says ³Stack overflow², then it¹s coming from
> AppleScript, and is ‹ or at least should be ‹ a trappable error. (And it has
> nothing to do with running out of VM space, so Activity Monitor or top(1)
> won¹t help in diagnosing it.) Why it¹s happening now and not before is a
> bigger question.
>
>
> ‹Chris N.
>
>> On Nov 13, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> So One of the machines had a stack overflow this morning and when I used UI
>> Browser to look at the dialog, I learned that it belonged to the AppleScript
>> applet.
>>
>> Every line in the script is inside an on error block, so it's not something
>> I can trap, or use GUI scripting to clear. (I use a lot of GUI scripting
>> with this to clear flash, java script and other dialogs as they come up.)
>>
>> I'm thinking I'm going to sample the memory on a regular basis and save it
>> to log files, then, when execution is halted due to a stack overflow, I'll
>> be able to see if anything seemed to get overloaded as the overflow
>> approached.
>
>
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