--On Tuesday, May 25, 1999, 11:25 AM -0700 "Laurence Rozier" lrozier@thepattern.com wrote:
When I start PWS, performance throughout the rest of my Squeak environment takes a nose dive. Simple things like selecting a window have a noticeable delay. I tried tweaking the secondsBetweenBackups := 1
- (60 * 60) and the Delay forMilliseconds: 100 behaviors in the
loopOnPort:loggingTo: method but to no avail. Any suggestions?
My guess is that your Squeak version is > 2.1. Something happened somewhere around 2.2/2.3 that causes this problem. I've seen it on Macs and Windows. 2.1, OTOH runs fine.
Worse, not everyone seems to see it. I've spent some hours digging around and I've tenatively concluded that it's a VM problem. Next step, I suppose, is to compare the c code for the network primatives between 2.1 and 2.4.
I wouldn't mind this as much as it's not *just* the UI or other processes slowing down--the server slows waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down. (No, the vowels were *not* superfluous! :))
I have yet to test Comache (the next generation PWS) though I intend to this week. If it exhibits the problem, well, it'll be another data point!
My current advice is that if you see this problem, drop back to 2.1. If anyone *is* running 2.2 or greater wthout this problem, please let me know!
Cheers, Bijan.