newbie. morphic is sluggish on my PC
Pennell, David
DPennell at quallaby.com
Tue Jan 30 00:52:29 UTC 2001
[snip]
> Then I tried looking at the code in the MessageTallys that
> were just posted. I tried changing WorldState>>initialize so
> that the MinCycleLapse is 40 instead of 20 (and
> re-initializing), expecting CPU usage to be cut in half if I
> were lucky. But it dropped down to 1%! Squeak's
> responsiveness still seemed fine from what I could tell, too,
> although this is a pretty fast machine. Trying some
> different numbers revealed that there's a big jump (at least
> on my PC) from setting MinCycleLapse to 31 versus 33. This
> must be some sort of magic threshold at which the VM starts
> churning events, or something, I don't know.
Thanks, Bob Arning sent me a fix for this yesterday. I saw similar
results - the CPU usage dropped to around 1%. Bob said he was going
to drop it in the update stream.
FWIW - MVC still takes all of the machine.
-david
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