I second that - I've never seen Terminal.app outright _crash_. The one thing that will hang it is copying MBs of text out of the buffer, but even then it doesn't crash (just stall for a long time).
Re:Terminal and shell performance
by SomeHacker44 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @11:22PM
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I had the same problem. After using terminal.app exclusively for literally 13 years it became unstable and unusable for me on the new Touch Bar Mac and I switched to iTerm2. That is a noticeably slower program, especially with a big scroll back, but at least it's stable!
I have no idea what the cause of the instability was but I couldn't fix it and couldn't tolerate it.
You might be happy to know that macOS 10.12.6 (released today) says it "Improves the stability of Terminal app".
I had a similar issue recently with a touch bar mac. It would crash pretty reliably when deleting lines during interactive rebases. This was in tmux with EDITOR=vim, hitting dd.
I got multiple segfaults from Terminal.app when scrolling back in bash history inside tmux for very long commands (ones which would wrap). This was only on the recent MacOS beta & I haven’t seen it since the last point release.
Looks like macOS 10.12.6 (released today) says it "Improves the stability of Terminal app".
Re:Terminal and shell performance
by jcranberry on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @11:32AM
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had this problem extensively recently using ssh when text fills the entire terminal.
Wow, what were you doing? I think I've seen maybe one Terminal.app crash in the past few years, and I'm a very heavy terminal user.