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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