Andreas,

after I took the lime to let it run for a couple of minutes it
eventually did come to an end, so it seems like it does not hang it
just gets very slow.

The system is an up-to-date 3.6 on Linux. The vm was built by myself
using vmmaker. 

martin at beaureve:~$ squeak -version
3.4-gamma1 #9 XShm Sun Jul 13 11:01:58 CEST 2003 gcc 2.95.4
Squeak3.5 of '11 April 2003' [latest update: #5180]
Linux beaureve 2.4.20 #2 Sat Jun 14 17:24:16 CEST 2003 i686
default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.4-gamma1/*.so

The application I am running is my own address directory app. It deals
with roughly 50000 "AddressItems"

What other information would be useful ?

"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> writes:

> 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.