Is there a way to terminate unintentional busy loops?

[mikesteele81]

I'm using CLOG Builder as an IDE for learning Common Lisp. This evening I accidentally created a busy loop in the REPL. I typed something like the following:

(do ((i 0)) ((> i 10) ('t)) (princ i))

SBCL immediately became pegged at 100% CPU usage within a single thread. My browser also became unresponsive and started to consume CPU resources while its memory usage climbed until it crashed.

Is there any way for me to abort a runaway computation when something like this happens? So far my only method has been to terminate SBCL.

[rabbibotton]

Stop a running operation use the command slime-interrupt (C-c C-b)

[mikesteele81]

Thank you for that tip. I'll try it next time.