Elijah; Most times I can’t even get in to task manager. As this problem crashes the whole system and causes the need for a reboot, I am obviously loathe to try to recreate it! Next time it happens I will repost with more info!
Thanks Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows ________________________________ From: Programming <programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com> on behalf of Elijah Stone <elro...@elronnd.net> Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 11:19:58 AM To: J Programming <programm...@jsoftware.com> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Avoiding J crash Rebooting is a bit drastic; can you not kill j from task manager? Beyond that, break _should_ work. I can look into making it a bit more responsive for long array operations, but am curious to know what specifically has caused you trouble. On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Richard Donovan wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any way to avoid the situation whereby by error I put J into an > infinite loop from which the only recovery is to reboot my Windows laptop? > > I guess that my erroneous routine is locking the CPU to such a such an extent > that I can’t even get to run Jbreak. > > I quite often receive a recoverable situation when a limit has been exceeded > but if I get the infinite loop situation I have lost my entire session and > have to start again. > > I really need a global setting which limits the amount of cpu usage and > aborts a function before it gets out of hand. > > Thanks, > > Richard > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
