[julia-users] causes of system crash?

2016-04-10 Thread K leo
These couple weeks I ran julia (0.4.5) on a Xubuntu guest of VirtualBox hosted by a Macbook Pro. During the hour-long runs, the system crashed a few times: user interface froze. This has happened a few times in the past when I ran Julia natively on a Xubuntu computer. So hardware problem can be

Re: [julia-users] causes of system crash?

2016-04-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 10 avril 2016 à 16:25 +0530, K leo a écrit : > These couple weeks I ran julia (0.4.5) on a Xubuntu guest of > VirtualBox hosted by a Macbook Pro.  During the hour-long runs, the > system crashed a few times: user interface froze.  This has happened > a few times in the past when I ran J

Re: [julia-users] causes of system crash?

2016-04-10 Thread Tim Holy
When you suspect @inbounds, the much easier approach is to start julia with julia --check-bounds=yes and it will ignore all @inbounds statements. This even affects base julia itself, and is therefore both easier and more thorough. If you identify a BoundsError triggered by one of julia's fu

Re: [julia-users] causes of system crash?

2016-04-10 Thread K leo
In theory, you are right. In my past case when I ran Julia on native Xubuntu laptop, you argument is really hard to dispute. But this time, it runs in VirtualBox on top of MacBook Pro, and what crashed was not Xubuntu or VirtualBox but the entire MacBook Pro. In this case, you may want to say

Re: [julia-users] causes of system crash?

2016-04-10 Thread Tim Holy
If you run long computations on them, some laptops (like mine) suffer from overheating+crash problems. Try the same code on a workstation. Best, --Tim On Sunday, April 10, 2016 06:40:46 AM K leo wrote: > In theory, you are right. > > In my past case when I ran Julia on native Xubuntu laptop, yo

Re: [julia-users] causes of system crash?

2016-04-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 10 avril 2016 à 06:40 -0700, K leo a écrit : > In theory, you are right. > > In my past case when I ran Julia on native Xubuntu laptop, you > argument is really hard to dispute.  But this time, it runs in > VirtualBox on top of MacBook Pro, and what crashed was not Xubuntu or > Virtual