Squeak UI hangs, Seaside still works, what can I do? 3.10 VM

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 19:41:31 UTC 2007


2007/9/20, Matthias Berth <matthias.berth at googlemail.com>:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have done some innocent looking Do-it in Squeak, then the UI became
> unresponsive. I have close to 0% CPU. When I move another window over
> the fullscreen squeak window I can see some CPU load. Alt-. does not
> work.
>
> My seaside session still works fine. So I switched on the halos, and
> did some print-its in the web interface  like Smalltalk
> garbageCollect. Then I was able to open a browser using
>
>   Integer browse.
>
> It seemed to take a long time before the window opened. Then I tried
>
>  SmalltalkImage current saveAsNewVersion
>
> and that did not finish for the last 20 minutes. It created the new
> version of the changes file, but the image file is not there.
>
> My configuration:
>
> - Squeak VM 3.10
> http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.6-bin.zip
> - image based on the squeak-dev image sq3.9-7067dev07.09.1.image
> - running seaside, Pier
> - freetype plugin
> - windows XP
>
> I am using the most recent 3.10 VM, so I could use Freetype from the
> package universe (as discussed a few days ago here).
>
> How can I try to get a responsive UI again?

Try to register the the screenshot application (WAScreenshot) through
the /config interface can suspend and resume the UI-Thread several
times.

Cheers
Philippe

> Cheers
>
> Matthias
>
>



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