Squeak slowdowns (Unix 3.1)

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Feb 23 16:51:00 UTC 2001


To clarify, does it *stay* in the bad state, once it gets there?

-Lex



Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> I'm using the 3.0pre2 Unix VM under Linux 2.4.0, with a 3.1 image.
> What I'm finding is that:
> 
>   * normally things run pretty well; if I do a Message Tally I see about 80% 
> of the time being spent in Delay>>wait. The CPU usage is below 5% for Squeak.
> 
>   * sometimes, though, Squeak uses about 100% of a CPU, and if I do a similar 
> Message Tally, I see 75% of the time being spent in 
> EventSensor>>nextEventFromQueue.
> 
> It can go from the "good" state to the "bad" state just by being left alone 
> with no interaction.
> 
> Saving the image, quitting, and restarting fixes this problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> currently: Stanwood, WA
> email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
> homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com





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