Clearly I'm well out of the loop at this point so I'm likely wrong. But,
the way any Squeak hosted service that was setup and managed by the
Box-Admins team in the past it will automatically restart if it quits
(using daemontools).

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:42 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was able to VNC right into the server image.  It is responsive,
>> however, there are a ton of processes apparently stuck on a
>> Mutex>>#critical: block.  I think that explains the timeouts.
>>
>> The service was last restarted 204 days ago.  I'll contact box-admins
>> and board about restarting the service, that should clear it up.
>>
>
> and for my information what version of Squeak and what VM is it running?
>
>
>>  - Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 6:12 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 08:10:31AM +0100, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
>> >> Hi, there.
>> >>
>> >> Since several weeks/months now, I cannot update a single package
>> without either getting a gateway error or a connection timeout. Luckily,
>> the timeout means that the code update was at least completed, which I can
>> observe in my email inbox.
>> >>
>> >> What's going on there?! That used to work fine. Timeouts were rare.
>> Gateway errors non-existent.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I think that the problem goes back longer than that, although it does
>> seem
>> > to be getting worse in recent months.
>> >
>> > My guess (and it is only a guess) is that there are two possible causes:
>> >
>> > 1) If I recall right, the VM that is installed with source.squeak.org
>> (which
>> > is quite old now) came from a time at which there were problems with
>> the garbage
>> > collector that led to noticeable delays. It is possible that updating
>> the VM
>> > to a more recent version would make this go away.
>> >
>> > 2) The image is backed by Magma, and it is possible that something
>> there is
>> > eating time when an update is made to a repository.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>
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