hyper: A lot of output locks up then crashes Hyper

Tested under Ubuntu 16.04.

When running:

time ls -lR /usr

Hyperterm locks up to 1 frame every few seconds and crashes (turns all black then all white) shortly afterwards.

By comparison, gnome-terminal runs in:

real    0m6.967s
user    0m1.372s
sys 0m2.444s

This is almost certainly an issue with hterm and a use case they haven’t optimized around. As an aside, we’ve worked a bit to get this usable on xterm.js which runs it in around 10 seconds but there are still improvements to be made.

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Reactions: 10
Comments: 22 (5 by maintainers)

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Had to switch to an alternate terminal today when this popped up. Grepping consistently crashes the program (Hyper Helper = 100% CPU usage) and makes me lose all tabs. This is a deal breaker.

+13

nadim on May 25, 2017

V2 is out 🎉

chabou on Apr 16, 2018

@chabou using Hyper 1.4.8 (stable)

bntzio on Nov 23, 2017

This is happening to me too, hyper freezes all the time after I do npm installs, what could it be?

bntzio on Nov 21, 2017

Somehow related I assume: hangs when doing npm install of a moderate size (nothing crazy, 20-30 direct dependencies) on macOS (MBP 2017, SSD, 16GB RAM). Eventually it gets back to normal, but until then it’s completely unresponsive.

emirotin on Aug 18, 2017