Squeak hangs when AVG virus scan is run

John Ersatznom bbound at gmail.com
Sat Jan 13 15:21:33 UTC 2007


John Ersatznom wrote:
> As the subject says: Squeak hangs if an AVG anti-virus scan is run. I 
> know, because I have one scheduled for 8 am on Saturdays and exactly at 
> 8 Morphic locked up solid and stopped processing events.

It's worse. The virus scan completing did not result in Squeak 
recovering. It still keeps flashing "Warning: event buffer overflow" and 
otherwise acting hung. That fresh mouse events aren't finding room to be 
appended to the buffer means that the buffer isn't being emptied from 
the other end, even though the original cause of the problem is gone. 
Apparently it isn't even trying to catch up on the queued-up events and 
begin responding again, and it looks like I'll have to resort once more 
to the three-fingered salute.

I'm getting rather tired of Squeak crashing at the drop of a hat. My 
Java development tools do not do so. My C/C++ development tools do not 
do so. My other applications do not do so -- not even the ones from 
Microsoft, these days. Those go or wonk out on a weekly basis but not a 
daily one.

Is there a tweak to make it much more robust, or is it just a matter of 
giving it time to mature more?



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