Compiling UNIX 3.0 VM

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Tue Feb 20 11:26:44 UTC 2001


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Mark A. Schwenk wrote:

> Kevin Fisher wrote:
> 
> > Also...Ian, if you're reading this, I notice that while running the VM I get a
> > lot of "input event buffer overrun" messages on stdout...not sure what this
> > means.
> 
> I initially tried doubling the size of the event buffer and thought
> that cured this problem. But since then, I've still been receiving
> input event buffer overruns. It seems to be mostly mouse events that
> are about half a second old getting dropped.

Probably we should just throw away too-old mouse-move events. The overrun
happens when Squeak is working hard for a while - like saving a 20+ MB
image over a network connection on a not-to-fast server.

-- Bert





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