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> To: kpgrant at mindspring.com
> From: Markus Kohler <markus_kohler at hp.com>
> Subject: Re: Installation help needed (Solaris, Linux)
> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:40:36 +0100
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> kpgrant at mindspring.com wrote:
> > 
> > I've just tried to install squeak on two machines (I'm hoping
> > to do my dissertation in Smalltalk).  One is running the solaris
> > os and one linux.  Both are showing the same error message and
> > no one involved can figure out why.  Specifically, both seem to
> > start up ok but both show a little white box in the upper left
> > hand corner that says: "Squeak cannot locate the changes file
> > named Squeak2.3.changes." and so forth.  The file is definitely
> > present, in the same directory, and has the same name it came
> > with (which is the name in the error message).  Anyone got any
> > ideas about this?
> 
> You need read and write access to it. 
> 
> > 
> > We haven't done much with the solaris installation but I
> > have played around with the other one on my linux box (300mhz
> > K6-2 w/32meg pc-100 sdram). I'm having a host of problems that
> > may be interrelated.  After startup (it works in spite of the
> > error mentioned above) the environment runs fine for a while,
> > then either shuts itself down with a "low memory" sort of error
> > message or else it starts ignoring the mouse. 
> 
> 
> The default memory size that Squeak allocates is a bit low for the
> newest
> version ( we shoudl change that). 
> 
> Try starting squeak with -memory 15M for 15MBytes for example. 
> 
> > When I monitor
> > system resource usage the memory looks fine but at times
> > the cpu usage rises to 100% (press the middle mouse button and
> > a little menu appears with the option "keep this window up"
> > if I choose to keep it up then the cpu usage starts rising
> > until it reaches 100% and then stays there until I close the
> > menu, at which point it drops rapidly).  All rather confusing.
> > 
> > I couldn't find any mention of this on any of the squeak web
> > pages (unless it's on the one at gatech, which I can't get on
> > for some reason) so I'm crying for help here.
> > 
> 
> Markus
> 
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> Markus Kohler  mailto:markus_kohler at hp.com
>