Preparing a Squeak Image and VM for Production

Sébastien Rocca-Serra sra at e8dev.com
Thu Nov 16 17:45:50 UTC 2006


Hi,
We develop a Web application with Squeak that will soon go in production.

It's our first experience with Squeak, so we need advice before 
installing the image on the production server.

Context
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We plan to use a headless 3.8 image on a debian Sarge server with a 
3.9.7 VM.

Questions
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- Any reason to use a 3.8 image -- like more stability?
- Any reason to use a 3.9 image -- like essential bug fixes? (we do not 
use Traits)

- Do we need to strip or shrink the image (and if yes, how)?
- Or is it best to start from a small squeak image (and in that case 
which one)?

- Are there subtle performance tweaks, (made up example: closing all 
windows in the image)?

- Is the squeak-vm_3.9.7-9_i386.deb VM package suitable for production?

Thanks !
Seb.





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