pub serve: "Could not start worker thread"

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This issue was originally filed by rasmu...@sonardesign.com

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Running pub serve, while walking away from my computer for a while, I came back to a dialog box saying Dart.exe had crashed - on the console, I saw the following error message:

vm\thread_pool.cc:233: error: Could not start worker thread: result = 12.

I can't tell you how to repeat this - it only happened that one time, and for no apparent reason, but I felt I should report it.

Dart VM version: 1.3.0-dev.1.1 (Sun Mar 02 01:20:25 2014) on "windows_ia32"

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This comment was originally written by rasmu...@sonardesign.com

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The same thing happened again today - away for a meeting, came back, and dart.exe had crashed.

This time I used Process Explorer (from sysinternals) and managed to grab a mini dump (attached) before closing the "dart.exe has stopped working" dialog.

It had reached a very high memory load of 1,985,632K which is close to the 32-bit limit, and I noticed the property sheet displays "Image: 32-bit", which makes me a little suspicious, because I installed the 64-bit version of Dart. Is "dart.exe" a 32-bit binary even in the 64-bit distribution? (why?)

I also have to wonder if this is related to #­17266 since the symptom appears to be the same: excessive memory usage, even though the app is idle, and then eventually a crash.

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Attachment:
dart.dmp (321.95 KB)

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This comment was originally written by @Fox32

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This is a duplicate of issue #13848. The issue is marked as "fixed" even if it is not comletly resolved. It is still blocked by issue #14428 on windows systems. The dart team knows about it. The good thing is, that pub serve is only a development tool, the workaround is to start it again ;)

[munificent]

OK, thanks for following up on this. I'll re-open the original bug.

For what it's worth, after making that change, I left pub serve running on my Windows box (inadvertantly) for a few weeks (!) and it was still going strong when I got back to it.

Is "dart.exe" a 32-bit binary even in the 64-bit distribution? (why?)

I would assume not, but I'm not sure.

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Added Duplicate label.
Marked as being merged into #13848.