WSL Linux Tracer Desktop App can potentially zip b...
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Sorry I probably wont be able to give an exhaustive bug trace/reproducability but smt here is not okay 😭 Im on a surface laptop studio, so not a weak device. On W11 Pro WSL; sometime overnight, tracer crashed the starting terminal just had this My laptop storage was also threatening to delete and shut itself off, turns out it made a 450gb dump file.... I'm not knowledgable enough to try and guess what type of lack of exception handling could have caused such a large runaway. Never had gwsl apps do this when crashing. Just noting it here. Probably wont use the app unsupervised anytime soon on gwsl if this is a risk. Hope this may help identify this bug in the future. this was installed on ubuntu LTS. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1528415716968235079/1528415717232214238/image.png?ex=6a5e378f&is=6a5ce60f&hm=72f78cd1ce81993c5cad8e243be0b29df5414aa6298ba7ff1715ea67cac5a764&
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Thanks for bringing this to our notice @gorgeous-microphone-2840! We will investigate this and release a fix for this as soon as possible
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To clarify I was running this overnight and my laptop goes into sleep mode, this is usually taxing on wsl processes anyways but never had it do something like this. the wsl vscode extension or native windows app have not had any issues otherwise.
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I think i've had similar issues, but mine was related to swap, and that on crashes it did not delete old swap files (done through wsl --shutdown command)
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hmm, yeah I do allocate like 32gb of swap and it was close to full when I saw this and restarted everything. I was trying to think if this was an issue on the gwsl or traycer side but it could just be a leak of some kind. very strange to get surprised with a big dump file though
I do think its great for a dev tool to natively support gwsl though. Kudos on traycer team for considering windows developers in their entirety
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