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Sylpheed RE agent
6900ebe5ca re: the frozen wait-object capture, and screen_id was never a freeze test
Caught the freeze by waiting for the event (frozen.py + in_flight) instead of
sleeping a guessed interval; freeze_waitobj.sh splits into boot/watch so the
wait is not capped by one Bash call. Verified hard: a frame minutes later is
byte-identical to the capture.

Healthy vs frozen, same run: 20 -> 24 wait frames, XEvent 19 -> 23,
XSemaphore 8 -> 7. The signature is per-thread -- 17 of 24 threads sit on the
exact object they were on, four previously-running threads park, and T74/T75
move off a semaphore onto an event. So the freeze is not a whole-emulator stall.

Also corrects the previous entry's test: screen_id reads 'flight' during a
freeze by design, which is why frozen.py exists. Re-testing the saved frames
says that run was genuinely healthy, but it was right by luck.

heavy_read.py added to test whether the instrument provokes the freeze: I/O is
free (371 MB in 0.1s, page cache), the cost is Python-level CPU. One data point
-- 670s clean, then frozen 54s after the inducer started -- recorded as n=1, not
as causation.
2026-08-25 09:02:48 +00:00
Sylpheed RE agent
a9526749dc re: WaitMultiple read confirmed on a live capture; XTimer is a third type
23 wait frames, 30 objects, nothing unresolved -- the second deref turns every
former miss into a resolved object, as predicted. XEvent 20 / XSemaphore 9 /
XTimer 1; every WaitMultiple thread waits on a pair, and 78/79/80 and 64/65 are
worker groups sharing a handle.

%ebp does not survive as the count -- WaitMultiple reuses it at 8fc158 -- so the
array is bounded by reading until an entry stops resolving instead.

The frozen capture is still not taken: screen_id reads 'flight' at the second
capture and out to ~470s, so the mission never black-screened. The diff in the
data file is two healthy captures and is recorded as such.
2026-08-25 08:34:46 +00:00