Squeaksource (in)stability

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Oct 2 19:46:58 UTC 2007


Ken Causey wrote:
> Would you mind giving us some idea of the volume of packages/versions
> that seems to have pushed you over the edge?

Not sure how to do this. Just checking the number of versions via:

   find . -name '*.mcz' -print | wc -l

says some 6500+ versions right now. Not sure how helpful this is.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> 
> Ken
> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 11:10 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> Our local Squeaksource installation has recently taken a turn to the 
>> worse, probably because we hit some magic number of packages or versions 
>> or so. While in the past we needed to restart SS about 2-3 times a week, 
>> it has recently gone up to needing a restart twice a day (we get emails 
>> whenever that happens so I'm not just imagining this).
>>
>> Help! This is completely unusable. If I hadn't added my little patch 
>> that recovers the versions involved in the lock up there would be open 
>> mutiny here by now. How can you run a Squeaksource installation with a 
>> *bit* of stability?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    - Andreas
>>
>>
>>
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