On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Lex Spoon wrote:
johnm@wdi.disney.com wrote:
michal starke Michal.Starke@lettres.unige.ch wrote:
Playing around for a bit with the morph interface, is also almost guaranteed to get the VM in a closed loop.
Is morphic running correctly on anyone's (intel) linux box [modulo sound] or is this a generalised problem? (I am considering a switch to linux but need to work on morhpic a lot...)
Here are a couple of landmines for Linux users (maybe this should be on the Swiki somewhere?): [...]
These aside, I have seen a *few* lockups at 100% CPU that I couldn't explain. They all happened over the last couple of weeks, when I was at home over a PPP link instead of over ethernet. "strace" reported that Squeak was doing lots of gettimeofday()'s, for whatever that helps. It always happened after I downloaded my email using Squeak's mail reader. Squeak would lock hard, at 100% CPU, and even alt-period had no visible effect.
The 100%-CPU-GUI-lockup-problem (with alt-. not responding) occurs every other week or so in my Swiki. No Morphic, no PPP, no Sound, just plain Squeak 2.2 / 2.3b. The interesting thing is, nobody outside notices it because the *server is still serving*.
IMHO it's a network/socket/*ConnectionQueue* problem that occurs at some rare conditions. I think it could be solved with accepting sockets - *please* put it into 2.3 (even if the Mac would implement it using the ConnectionQueue stuff :-)
Cheers, Bert