my chicken-program is unresponsive. it's using 100% cpu: $ sudo top | grep 27547 27547 klm 20 0 3190660 1.713g 2744 R 92.8 3.6 4114:02 arp-boats $ sudo strace -p 27547 Process 27547 attached munmap(0x7f4e3394b000, 1073745920) = 0 munmap(0x7f4e7394c000, 1073745920) = 0 mmap(NULL, 1073745920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4e7394c000 mmap(NULL, 1073745920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4e3394b000 munmap(0x7f4df394a000, 1073745920) = 0 munmap(0x7f4e7394c000, 1073745920) = 0 mmap(NULL, 1073745920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4e7394c000 mmap(NULL, 1073745920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4df394a000 munmap(0x7f4e3394b000, 1073745920) = 0 munmap(0x7f4e7394c000, 1073745920) = 0 mmap(NULL, 1073745920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4e7394c000 mmap(NULL, 1073745920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4e3394b000 .... ... $ sudo gdb -p 27547 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f4eb67d280c in really_remark () from /usr/local/lib/libchicken.so.8 #1 0x00007f4eb67d2e9e in C_rereclaim2 () from /usr/local/lib/libchicken.so.8 #2 0x00007f4eb67d4259 in allocate_vector_2 () from /usr/local/lib/libchicken.so.8 #3 0x00007f4eb67d5d23 in CHICKEN_run () from /usr/local/lib/libchicken.so.8 #4 0x00007f4eb67d5df0 in CHICKEN_main () from /usr/local/lib/libchicken.so.8 #5 0x00007f4eb619aec5 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #6 0x0000000000401333 in _start ()