source.sqf.org down...

Mon Sep 19 04:58:08 UTC 2005


Doug Way wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:35:43 -0700, "Daniel Vainsencher"
> <daniel.vainsencher at gmail.com> said:
> http://source.squeakfoundation.org seems to be working fine for me at
> the moment.  Noone restarted the image, so maybe it was a short term
> problem with the domain, or something with your connectivity, or
> something else. :)
Nope, I still don't see it. Maybe something about the DNS changed but 
didn't propagate yet? here its at least 5 hours that its unavailable.

>>BTW, so what do we know about why SqS is so unstable?
> Bert posted about this at one point... on this list?  He's seen the
> problem a few times in the Impara SqueakSource image.  I believe it has
> something to do with WeakArrays and/or finalization, but I don't know
> the details.  (In fact, I wonder wondering if the finalization fix you
> posted on squeak-dev could be related.)
I was curious about that.

> In related news, Ken Causey & I worked today on moving the SqS setup
> from Cees' machine over to box2, which is one of the more official sqf
> boxes... this way more admins will have access to debug it, restart it,
> etc.  An initial copy is running right now at
> http://source2.squeakfoundation.org ... we'll try the real switch
> sometime later this week.
Cool.

Daniel