Ongoing IDE lockups

[jassing]

I suspect it might have something to do with the session history, but can't be sure. I get several lockups/crashes a day.

When it does lock up, the CPU jumps to 25% and stays there until I kill purebasic.exe

[Michael Vogel]

Same here, since I've changed from 5.73 to 6.11 I have multiple situations where the IDE just start hanging here and then. Even the CPU load is still low (around 8 or 12%), the IDE window doesn't react, waiting 10 or 15 minutes doesn't change anything.

Maybe there's a debugging version available to get detailed information what's going wrong.

There's no indication what triggers the issue, most of the time it is a shortcut (Ctrl+F, F5, Ctrl+Pos1 or whatever).

I do play around with PB6.11 for 10 days or so and the crash "counter" must be close to 100. So the session history (which I never saw before) has tons of confusing (Unsaved source...) entries already. Would be nice to get some sorting/filter options and more information about the file (e.g. the size in bytes because between a click on one item and the moment until the source is seen may take 5 seconds or so). A right button menu with options like "Load source into IDE..." or "Save source as..." would be fine as well.

[Fred]

Could you try to deactivate session history to see if it's the root cause ?

[Michael Vogel]

Switched off session history three days ago and - finger crossed - no crash for now...
...will keep the setting disabled for a week or so and will post the results here.

[Michael Vogel]

Bad news, the IDE freezed again (session history is still disabled). I just was scrolling around and was wondering that some lines seemed to look wrongly intented. I had only some "milliseconds" before the window was shown whitened so I am not sure what lines have been shown - my impression was that they where from the collapsed procedure above the cursor.

[Michael Vogel]

Four times freezing took place - still no idea what could be responible for that behaviour. Think about reusing the 5.73er edition again.

[BarryG]

Does it happen with a clean PureBasic install with NO prefs file previously created (it'll be in APPDATA)?

[Michael Vogel]

I am using a portable installation and use identical prefererence files as for PB5.73 - same has been done with 6.00, 6.04 and 6.10 which I din't use very often but I can't remember that any IDE has been freezing before I started using 6.11.

[novablue]

I am also experiencing a lot of freezes since PB 6.xx. I am using the windows x64 IDE. The window stops responding and i have to kill the process. It happens at random several times a day.

[jassing]

No prefs, virgin environment, no session history, still happened. Maybe scintilla?

[Fred]

Does it still happens ?

[Michael Vogel]

Didn't test 6.20 for now, so I can't give a feedback here.
What I could see meanwhile is that the problem was not introduced with version 6.11 but earlier - actually I work with 6.04 and have to accept two or more crashs a day.

[DeanH]

I have to add to this. Ever since v6 came out I have experienced regular freezing and lockups. Happens on both Windows 10 and 11 on several PC's. I have not been able to work out a trigger other than several files are usually open at the same time. The lockups have happened since 6.01 and every version since, including 6.30b2. Completely unpredictable, I can count on it happening almost every day and often more than once. I have not reported this as I have felt nothing can be done, assumed it was something I've done to make a stack problem, and I haven't seen it mentioned on the forum. (Maybe I've missed it.)

An hour later I have had my first lockup today. I'm using 6.11 x64 LTS. Only one file open this time. I have had others open and closed. I did a quick CTRL S then ALT F4 to close all unfolded sections then shifted the cursor to the end as I was about to add a new section. Recording session history is off. Will switch to 6.30b2 x64 and see if that is different.