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Subject: tw2 infinite loop? Date: Fri Sep 25 2015 13:23:59
From: Digital Man To: Nightfox

  Re: tw2 infinite loop?
  By: Nightfox to All on Fri Sep 25 2015 07:41 am

 > This morning I noticed that sbbsctrl was using about 85-95% of the CPU, and
 > I saw that a user was logged in running tw2 (in xtrn/tw2).  I opened the
 > "spy on node" window to see what was happening that might be causing such
 > high CPU usage, but it looked like nothing was happening on that node.  I
 > also noticed the user had been logged in for about 5 hours, so I suspect
 > there might have been an infinite loop running in tw2 somewhere.  I closed
 > sbbsctrl and re-opened it, and now all is fine.  I've updated my tw2 files
 > to make sure they're all up to date, but I'm wondering if that is a known
 > issue?

It's not known to me. :-) I'm sure tw2 could use more testing to handle
corner-cases, like the user disconnecting unexpectedly. :-)

                                            digital man

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