No ringing bells here _but_ it would be helpful if you could describe the
situations a little better in which this happens. E.g., do you use any
specific apps? Anything that could eat tons of memory? Anything I/O heavy? 

The reason I'm asking is that there is one situation in which GCs can become
very slow. We've seen this in the past and try to introduce sufficent
counter measures to detect the situation early on and try to cope with it in
a reasonable way. So it would be tremendously helpful if you could describe
more about the situation you're in. And, as always, specifics about the
system (VM version, OS version etc) are more than welcome.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Martin Drautzburg
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 10:24 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Garbage collector woes
> 
> 
> Ever so often it happens that "space left" does not finish. CPU usage
> goes up and the UI freezes. I can use "Alt.-" to get back into
> business and then sometime "space left" works when applied a second
> time. Also sometimes I cannot save my image. I believe this is for the
> same reason. Sometimes I can invoke "space left" once and when I
> invoke it a second time immediately afterwerds it hangs. The stack
> that pops up after Atl-. shows things in the area of waek references. 
> 
> Has anybody encountered this too. Does it ring any bells ? What should
> I do to track down the problem.
> 
> This happens with the latest 3.6 image.
>