<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Lukas & Avi,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you very much for the insanely valuable information. One last question (do I sound like Columbo?)...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>How's the stability of the Squeak VM? Can I rely on a Squeak VM running a Seaside or Magma app to have uptimes in the many weeks or months?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 24, 2006, at 12:58 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Currently there are about 200 Squeak VMs running concurrently, most of</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">them asleep as they are not receiving any requests all the time.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Suspending the VM avoids to have garbage-collection going on all the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">time and allows the operating system to swap them out.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>