Trying to fix a http://dolphin-emu.org website issue, made a typo in the .py file I'm live-editing. Second terminal has a tail -f on logs. Backtraces start spewing out. Terminal scrollback causes my laptop to OOM. iwlwifi firmware crashes. Trackpad somehow stops working.
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I've never had a server-side fail somehow infect my client machine, but here we are I guess.pic.twitter.com/yUOKr44f3q
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Replying to @ShadicbypassMax
Yeah, seeing these things makes me realize how little I understand computers. Like, I can't understand the causation chain here. Two hardware components on two completely separate buses failing at the same time, and since it's FW crash for one it's hard to blame it on drivers
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Replying to @ShadicbypassMax @delroth_
Console scrollback OOMs machine. Something something blocking in the network path ends up breaking the wifi. Firmware restarts, meanwhile all this triggers too much time blocked in irq context and PS/2 buffer doesn't get read in time, fills up, loses sync. That's my guess anyway
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Replying to @marcan42
I can believe all that but I don't understand how the wifi fail is manifesting as a firmware crash. You would think that would most likely be hardware initiated.
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Actually it just says it was a timeout, maybe it didn't crash and it was just the driver misinterpreting a CPU stall due to OOM as a hardware stall? And then the response to that is resetting the hardware and reloading firmware and dumping registers unconditionally.
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Replying to @marcan42
Oh, you're right! I completely misread that dump. Duh. Yeah, that explanation makes perfect sense then. It's sad that this is a real failure mode...
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