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👪 - 2025 DAY 7 SOLUTIONS - 👪 (programming.dev)

submitted 2 weeks ago by CameronDev@programming.dev to c/advent_of_code@programming.dev

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Day 7: Laboratories

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Surprised you didn't trigger the OOM killer. Windows?

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Naw, linux. I had a Youtube video running in the background that might have made the problem worse. I could switch desktops and move the mouse (albeit with a lot of lag and jitter) but not close the tab or even hard-close the browser.

Running the same code on my macbook triggered the "a script on this page is slowing down firefox, do you want to wait some more or pause and debug it?" prompt.

Either the OOM killer is not properly set up on my desktop, or it was actually a hot CPU loop that caused the lock-up and not memory pressure. Or some sort of hybrid cpu+mem problem? The code was cloning ever-longer arrays in a for-loop, and from my understanding the event loop for a browser page/tab is not only single-threaded but contains both UI events and script execution (unless you explicitly/specifically shell out to a web worker or the like).

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Possibly using up swap space first?

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 6 days ago

This might be the actual culprit; I don't think I have any swap space allocated (htop always displays 0/0 for it). I have 48 gigs of RAM, and the "out of memory" error I got on a previous day's problem didn't provoke a single slowdown, freeze, or program crash...