[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] Pharo on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Sven,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven at stfx.eu> wrote:

>
> On 23 Oct 2013, at 14:22, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, i was also exploring, why even if i do not touch image i got like
> 3-5% CPU load.
> > What i found that it is in VM. Because i basicaly removed everything in
> image,
> > and just left idle process, and still had such loads.
>
> Igor, some time ago you told me which thread inside the VM was doing this,
> but maybe you forgot ;-)
>

two different things.  One is the idle process, in the image.  This is
heavy-weight.  It calls relinquishProcessorForMicroseconds: which does all
sorts of things, including system calls to poll for i/o.  The other is the
poll thread in the Cog and Stack VMs.  This simply sleeps for a
millisecond, wakes up and sets a variable, and then goes back to sleep.  It
is relatively lightweight.

I suspect the 3-5% is due to the former, not the latter.  One way to test
would be to compare the interpreter VM against the Stack and Cog VMs and
see how much time the interpreter VM takes.  If the interpreter VM also
takes a lot of time at idle, then the poll thread is not the culprit.


> > On 23 October 2013 13:52, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven at stfx.eu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This morning I upgraded my MacBook Air to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. The
> good new is that my trusty VM [1] is still working OK !
> >
> > However, something seems to have changed regarding full screen mode: it
> more or less works but there are two black bands and the window title
> remains visible, it is as if it did not expand enough:
> >
> > <Screen Shot 2013-10-23 at 13.40.56.png>
> >
> > Which is a pity: I rely on this a lot to get more screen space on my 13
> inch screen and to work distraction free.
> >
> > I guess we’ll have to wait for our hero Esteban to have a look.
> >
> > Also new is the focus on energy management and efficiency. Sadly Pharo
> is flagged as using to much (look at the menu under the battery icon top
> right and the energy tab in the activity monitor):
> >
> > <Screen Shot 2013-10-23 at 13.49.53.png>
> >
> > This is probably related to the busy thread running/polling every ms or
> so inside the VM.
> >
> > I could turn these into issues.
> >
> > Sven
> >
> > [1]
> >
> > Virtual Machine
> > ---------------
> > /Users/sven/Develop/Smalltalk/Pharo.app/Contents/MacOS/Pharo
> > NBCoInterpreter NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.18 uuid:
> a53445f9-c0c0-4015-97a3-be7db8d9ed6b Mar 13 2013
> > NBCogit NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.18 uuid:
> a53445f9-c0c0-4015-97a3-be7db8d9ed6b Mar 13 2013
> > git://gitorious.org/cogvm/blessed.git Commit:
> 412abef33cbed05cf1d75329e451d71c0c6aa5a7 Date: 2013-03-13 17:48:50 +0100
> By: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> Jenkins build #14535
> >
> > Mac Cocoa Cog 5.8b12 21-Sep-10 >1B0534FA-246C-47C5-AB29-7A76C81CCDCB<
> > VMMaker versionString git://gitorious.org/cogvm/blessed.git Commit:
> 412abef33cbed05cf1d75329e451d71c0c6aa5a7 Date: 2013-03-13 17:48:50 +0100
> By: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> Jenkins build #14535
> > NBCoInterpreter NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.18 uuid:
> a53445f9-c0c0-4015-97a3-be7db8d9ed6b Mar 13 2013
> > NBCogit NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.18 uuid:
> a53445f9-c0c0-4015-97a3-be7db8d9ed6b Mar 13 2013
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Igor Stasenko.
>
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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