On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I updated the 4.4 all-in-one and put it here:
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4460862/Squeak-4.4-All-In-One.zip
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>
> On linux I'm not using the ht vm.
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> If you attempt to use the HT vm without making the kernel modifications does
> it behave like the non-HT vm or just crash?

It exits with a cryptic error message:

$ coglinuxht/squeak myimage.image
pthread_setschedparam failed; consider using ITIMER_HEARTBEAT:
Operation not permitted

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>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
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>
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>
> ...at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2761/.
>
> CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.317/r2761
>
> Fix bug in transferTo:(from:) when doing a code compaction when
> ensuring there is a machine code method when switching to a
> process whose context has a machine code pc.
>
> Limit the ammount of space the Cogit will stack allocate when compiling.
> This limits the maximum number of bytecodes in a method that the
> Cogit will compile.  Currently set at 1.5Mb of stack space from empirical
> tests of alloca on Mac OS X 10.6, linux 2.6 & Windows XP.
>
> Fix become for cog methods that are not paired with their
> bytecoded methods (e.g. Newspeak accessors).
>
> Linux:
>
>         There are two variants of the Linux VMs; those ending in "ht" have a
>         heartbeat thread, while those that don't, use an interval timer for the
>         heartbeat (the Windows and Mac VMs have a threaded heartbeat).  The
>         threaded heartbeat is better (for example, signals from the interval timer
>         interfere with system calls, etc), but to use it one must have a kernel
>         later than 2.6.12 and configure linux to allow the VM to use multiple
>         thread priorities.  To do so, create a file called VM.conf where VM is
>         the name of the vm executable ("squeak" for the Squeak vm, "nsvm" for
>         the Newspeak vm) in /etc/security/limits.d/ with contents:
> *       hard    rtprio  2
> *       soft    rtprio  2
>
>         e.g.
> sudo cat >/etc/security/limits.d/squeak.conf <<END
> *       hard    rtprio  2
> *       soft    rtprio  2
> sudo cp /etc/security/limits.d/squeak.conf /etc/security/limits.d/nsvm.conf
> END
>         Then log out and log back in for the limits to take effect.
> --
> best,
> Eliot
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best,
Eliot