That's interesting. I also use AVG, and I have noticed the same problem (on
Windows 2000).
I hadn't thought that it could be AVG causing the problem. Now it makes sense.

Interestingly, it doesn't seem to happen when Squeak is minimized.

Sometimes I can delete the error messages from the console, then hide the
console window, and the image is useable, though slow.

Cheers,
Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ersatznom" <bbound at gmail.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: Squeak hangs when AVG virus scan is run


> 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.
>
> Contrast with the email client I'm using, which is a touch sluggish but
> otherwise working perfectly.
>
> There's been no response that I could detect (even scanning the archives
> again) to my response to the VM crash thread.
>
> There are also performance issues. Performing 100,000 math operations on
> floats and small integers with some message passing, looping, and block
> calling takes a full second or two on a 2GHz machine. Is that normal?
>
>