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On 12/18/2010 2:40 AM, Erik Janssens wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Maybe I should give a bit more background on the issue. We
have observed a number of segfaults with users of our application.
What is strange is that this number is far higher with
Windows 7 users. Also, on Windows 7 the crashes seem more
severe (push-the-button-time). As this is the only segfault
I'm able to produce with testing, I suspect it's this issue
causing the Windows 7 segfaults, but that's not sure of course.
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As a Windows 7 (64-bit) user since March, I can say that on Windows
7 I have experienced a much higher rate of push-the-button crashes
than on the prior XP. Most of them seem to be related to threading,
Firefox, and Flash, but after installing FlashBlocker, the rate of
crashes decreased, but didn't go to zero. There are a few that do
not correlate with Firefox. The reason I include threading in the
mix, is that my style of Firefox use is to have many tabs open
concurrently, and I think Firefox launches a thread (or maybe more)
for each tab.<br>
<br>
I have been extremely disappointed with Windows 7 because of these
crashes, my usual technique of reading Web sites while waiting for
other work to happen is made impossible, because the other work will
get crashed too, since Windows reboots the machine instead of just
terminating a process.<br>
<br>
I'd be glad for any explanations of why it does that, although it is
straying off topic for this newsgroup. But mentioning my experience
with Windows 7, seems relevant to the question above: it may not be
an application problem, nor a Qt problem, nor a PyQt problem, but a
Windows 7 problem that makes crashes more frequent and more severe
on Windows 7 than on other platforms.<br>
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