[Vm-dev] getVMParameters broken

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:24:10PM +0200, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
> 
> Hi Henrik,
> 
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 14:55 , Henrik Johansen wrote:
> 
> >> primitiveVMParameter in the most recent version of VMMaker package was changed. Does the image-side code need to be adapted or is this a bug in the primitive?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Adrian
> > It's been changed to a microsecond clock value in recent VM's on Unix/Mac.
> 
> Ah, I didn't notice the change of the clock. So, it's easy to fix. But the
> Windows VM doesn't have that (yet)?

Oops, I think that's my fault - I didn't coordinate with Andreas on making
sure the platform sources for this got updated properly last time around.
I think that the last widely advertised Windows VM was missing the necessary
updates as a result of this, and possibly is giving incorrect timing as a
result.

Can you try downloading the latest Windows VM from squeakvm.org and see if
the problem goes away? Using that VM with a Squeak trunk image I get output
like this:

'uptime			42h16m38s
memory			19,953,968 bytes
	old			15,092,452 bytes (75.6%)
	young		3,363,080 bytes (16.9%)
	used		18,455,532 bytes (92.5%)
	free		1,498,436 bytes (7.5%)
GCs				2,040 (74607ms between GCs)
	full			2 totalling 86ms (0.0% uptime), avg 43.0ms
	incr		2038 totalling 189ms (0.0% uptime), avg 0.0ms
	tenures		7 (avg 291 GCs/tenure)
Since last view	1,652 (227ms between GCs)
	uptime		375.6s
	full			1 totalling 45ms (0.0% uptime), avg 45.0ms
	incr		1651 totalling 134ms (0.0% uptime), avg 0.0ms
	tenures		6 (avg 275 GCs/tenure)
'

The supposed 42 hours uptime is completely wrong, but the rest looks
reasonable.

Dave