Hello all.

I am having a problem with the Squeak VM running on Linux 2.6.11 with  
an SMP kernel (2 real processors appears to the OS to be 4 via Hyper- 
Threading ).

The image is running a fairly active Seaside application. The  
application runs an external process very often (convert). It also  
access an external file after the external process completes.

`lsof | grep squeak | wc -l` usualy returns a number around 120.

The squeak version is
3.7-7 #1 Wed Oct 26 17:11:21 EDT 2005 gcc 3.4.3
Squeak3.7 of '4 September 2004' [latest update: #5989]

The image will lockup (or start responding slowly) `top` reports 99.x 
% CPU usage.

Opening the process browser will show the "UI process" taking up  
about 60% and the event tickler taking up  the remaining.

The UI process appears to be using so much process time because of  
the process browser.

During the normal running of the application only a workspace is open.
The web application will slow way down. From almost instantaneous. to  
5 sec plus.
Restarting (save and quit and reopening the image) will restore the  
application back to it's speedy self.

An expectable level of speed will last for about 2 to 3 days.

If the image is "doing nothing" the Squeak image will then hang  
around 50% CPU time. As soon as someone access a page the image will  
freeze for a second or two.

Has anyone experienced this sort of issue ?

Is there any known resolution or steps I could take to eliminate the  
problem?

Thanks
Will