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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I thought the Pharo base image (3.10 with a few fonts &
Balloon3d added) running on Windows was looking pretty stable<font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'> (compared to other images)</span></font>. But after an hour
of editing code<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'> on a <st1:place
w:st="on">Vista</st1:place> machine </span></font>--an hour since the last
save—Squeak has abandoned me. It is unresponsive. Trying both control and
alt in combination with ‘.’, ‘l’ (lower case L),
‘c’, does nothing apparently useful.<font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The process stack reported by <st1:place w:st="on">Vista</st1:place>
shows it to be incurring page-faults like mad. [OK, that has subsided while I
typed this email.] My machine has 4 GB of RAM, I am running two instances of
internet-explorer, and I have turned off the Windows search-indexing service. I
know <st1:place w:st="on">Vista</st1:place> has a guess-the-next-program
pre-loader that could be a little overzealous in displacing programs from
RAM… but still… it seems like this 101MB program shouldn’t
generate any page faults when the other two leading memory pigs are using less
than double that much virtual memory. <st1:place w:st="on">Vista</st1:place>’s
Resource Monitor claims I am using only 43% of physical memory. The page-fault
count for Squeak.exe doubled while I typed this message.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I click the Squeak icon on the window frame of the
running copy (upper left on Windows), I do see the menu for VM Preferences. It
shows me the menu and allows me to invoke actions. It will allow me to toggle
the “Show output console” on and off. The output console shows me
changes to memory (as I have that option checked). I can use my mouse wheel to
scroll this console. Control-‘.’ and Control-c (and lower case L)
in this console do not change anything. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>After mucking around in the console area, I am now getting
“WARNING: event buffer overflow” just moving my mouse around in
squeak. After turning the console off, the pointer is now invisible except when
you click. It appears that the overall squeak window is repainting itself
properly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-- Help me debug it<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have an interest in building a commercial application in
Squeak. The FAQs says squeak is stable. Given the active community of
developers (including The Great Ones), I imagine that it is stable, and that I
am just doing something dumb… repeatedly. However, for Squeak to be
adopted more broadly, it can’t go zombie on users, even when the user
does something dumb. That’s an absolute.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>What is the longest uptime a squeak image has ever endured
(while doing something useful)? Which version was that and on what platform?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So I am willing to work to help make squeak more robust, but
as a complete newbie with it, I need much guidance. So right now, with this
hung-up image, what should I do? Should I attach to it with gdb? And if so,
then what? [If the internal process control is working, I won’t be able
to make heads or tales out of it from gdb, right?] Or can I launch
another squeak and send it a signal in some way [is it listening?]? What is
most useful in this case?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[Is there a way in Windows/Vista to signal an app so as to
force a core dump?]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cam</span></font></st1:place><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>PS: I want to emphasize that I do not care about the code
lost in this particular instance (it was tutorial code), instead I am looking
for a stable free development environment… and I’m willing to help
make one.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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