- jcm@sdf.lonestar.org [2008-12-17 13:59+0100] writes:
This problem does not have an actual error message in the REPL, so it's starting to frustrate me a bit.
Loading a couple of large projects from the terminal/REPL works fine, but doing the same operation from SLIME stops, without an error, and with an unresponsive REPL. It never gives an error, or returns control to the prompt. Sometimes the cpu is pegged at 98+% on the sbcl process.
This sounds like this problem: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel/12464
OTOH, SBCL shouldn't consume so much CPU time if it's deadlocked.
Does the problem also occur if you set SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* to something other than :spawn ? Also keep an eye on the *inferior-lisp* buffer; it might contain some error message.
Actually, I rolled back to the previous official release of SBCL and that solved the problem for now. But maybe I'll cvs up to HEAD and try these other settings.