Squeaksource (in)stability

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Wed Oct 3 12:51:24 UTC 2007


Hi mike

do you know if the fixes of andreas have been integrated to the  
current version?

Stef

On 2 oct. 07, at 21:15, Michael Rueger wrote:

> 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?
>
> Welcome to the club.
> I used the latest squeaksource version for sophieproject (lots and  
> lots of packages and versions) that also runs on the esug server (I  
> think) and added all your patches.
> It seems to be really stable, so your patches seem to work their  
> magic :-)
>
> The only thing that makes problems is that it screws up the web  
> connection (see previous postings).
>
> And we use image storage, which sucks big time as we already ran  
> into the problem that on a rare bug the image got saved with the  
> debugger open and caused problems. We don't have the resources  
> right now to try out the Magma backend Bert did a while ago.
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>




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