3.6g for linux becomes "sluggish" -- HELP
cdshaffer at acm.org
cdshaffer at acm.org
Wed Sep 24 13:09:20 UTC 2003
David T. Lewis writes:
>
> Sounds like OSProcess in not properly receiving or handling the "death
> of child" signals from the programs being run by your CommandShell
> window.
>
> I'm sorry I won't have much time to look at this until this weekend,
> but here are a couple of quick workarounds to get things unstuck:
>
> - Find the UnixOSProcessPlugin.so in your installation, and rename
> it so that it cannot be run by the VM.
Did it.
>
> - Get back into Squeak, and open a ProcessBrowser. Terminate any processes
> that look suspicious. From the symptoms you are described, I'll bet
> you have a lot of them.
There were no suspicious processes running except the process reaper
but I couldn't kill it because the image becomes sluggish so quickly
that it is basically unusable by the time I open the process browser.
Since removing the .so file had no effect on the problem then maybe
the problem isn't OSProcess?
David
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