Good to know I'm not going crazy. Or at least not alone.

I don't have much as far as information goes. Nothing is broken, just not behaving as I think it should. I'm hoping the issue I'm facing will ring a bell for someone and they'll know what I'm talking about and why. I'll try to keep it short (I'm bad at that!)

1) Back in July, first time using ESP32 ...

Did you re-install the tools? If you're using Eclipse, it won't matter if you run the install script in a console to install the tools. You have to use Eclipse Help menu -> ESP-IDF Tools Manager -> Install Tools

That git command I used above blew in my face so I had to clone the repository again and after a scary first ota update that took twice as long as usual and stalled a few times, all the other updates and the version check spam all went without a hitch. Not a single crash.

Thanks again for pointing ...

Wow.. 18 hours ago. What are the odds. Thanks for pointing this. I didn't think of checking the issues, or even posting one. I'm not sure I would have found it since it doesn't seem to be related to mqtt. I'll check that fix and see if I can merge it myself.

Last update since it's solved, sort of. I'd like some feedback about whether I did it right or wrong with git. I managed to get a list of commits using 'git log --oneline > git.log, and in the log there's this near the top:

<snip>
5785e4dfb newlib: move some functions to soc, esp32, esp32s2 ...

This is a backtrace of the mqtt client crashing when I create the OTA task. I don't know if it's related to the OTA task itself (or the task api (doubt it)) but this is how I'm creating it:

The task:
xTaskCreate(&hub_ota_task, "OTA Task", 8192, &theArg, 7, NULL); // theArg is a global variable ...

I moved to the master branch two months ago and everything was smooth as butter. A few days ago I updated to the latest version and now I'm having problems with what appears to be gettimeofday(). I won't go through everything I tried to pinpoint the source of the problem and I'm not even sure I ...

Editing post. It wasn't really a problem. I was trying to have a packet sent when the wifi was busy scanning, a.k.a programmer snafu.

Still a lesson learned. Good work on esp-idf. Loving it!

Thank for the reply. I put the async_send in a queue and task of its own and it didn't help. I gave the httpd server a priority of 3 and a priority of 8 for the async_send task. I included a screenshot of the piece of code where it happens. As you can see, I respond with httpd_ws_send_frame() then ...