Hello,

One of our students is having trouble with very poor Squeak  
performance on Vista.  I was hoping that someone with Windows  
experience could help diagnose his problem.

Philip writes:

"Is anyone else having problems with Squeak being incredibly slow to  
respond? It was fine the past couple of days, but it just started  
happening to me tonight. I have reset Squeak, and my system. I have  
also downloaded new images. Nothing seems to help. Also, my HD light  
isn't on, nor is my comp processor utilization being eaten up. Any  
ideas?"


Also:

"I have closed most of the [Squeak] windows and that doesn't help."
	
"I tried the roundedWindowCorners preference and the  
higherPerformance preference, and I changed the VM system  
configuration to disable "Reduce CPU usage". None of this helps.
I am not doing any memory or internet intensive things. There is  
sometimes up to a 10 second delay between me clicking, and the World  
menu showing up.
I am using VM Version 3.10.6 and Squeak system version 3.9.1. I have  
Windows Vista (unfortunately).
I checked the Process Browser and idle process definitely is the max  
value averaging around 90% and the rest of the percentage going to  
the GUI and the auto-update.
Any other thoughts?

Philip"


Thank you,

Maurice