[Seaside] HIGH CPU - not frozen, but s...l....o....w seaside image

[Florian Minjat]

I have almost the same problem...

I am running Squeak3.9 with Seaside2.7a1-mb.205. I use squeak as a 
transparent persistant object database and save the image every 
12hours. Everything works fine.

BUT after some days, sometimes two days, sometimes one week, the image 
finish to hang strangely : everything works fine in the seaside app, 
you can use the application normally perhaps a little slower than 
usual, but it could be my network. But any attempt to save the image, 
or update the code via monticello, or use a SmartRefStream to save a 
part of the image using a Seaside app just makes my browser load until 
timeout (with WAVersionUploader for example). If I check the process 
using top, I just see Squeak at 99.9% CPU. If I use the WAScreenshot 
app to look at the UI, there is no debugger, no error, nothing out of 
the ordinary...

This is very bad because when it ends like this, I have no choice to 
kill squeak and loose all the data since the last save of the image. 
And when I restart with the last save, everything is ok ant squeak is 
quick and very responsive. Until the next times it hangs...

Every 12 hours I 'clean' the image before saving it with this code :
	WARegistry clearAllHandlers.
	MCFileBasedRepository flushAllCaches.
	Smalltalk garbageCollect.

I run this code and the save of the image inside an on:do: Error block 
with log of the stack in case of an Error, but I get nothing.

I don't know what to add to be sure the image will stay healthy. 
Should I save then kill  and restart the image each night ?

How can I track or inspect or debug the image in such a state to find 
out what is happening?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion, I am a little lost with no clue 
there.

Florian

Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2007/3/16, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com>:
>> I have an image that seemed to not respond, and was running about 99%
>> (from top).  I tried ATL+. to see if that would help from VNC, but isn't
>> that just for UI issues?
> 
> No
> 
>> What are good ways to found out what is
>> happening to an image that is taking up all CPU time?
> 
> Process explorer or gdb.
> 
>> After a while, it went down to about 45% and has slowed to a whopping
>> but steady 40%. So, I'm just going to wait until it settles down.
>>
>> In the meantime, I'd like to find out what was going on. This is a
>> remote, headless seaside image (latest production) and 3.9 Final.
>>
>> Any advice is much appreciated!
>>
>> thanks,
>> brad
>>
>>
>>
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