Ned,

A few questions:

- When things are running well and you

	Sensor inspect

what class is it and, if it is an EventSensor, what is its eventQueue?

- When things are starting to go bad, same questions as above.

- Between the times it is running well and running poorly, do any of the following happen (especially if they always happen):

-- Do you get walbkacks in projects which are "isolated"?

-- Do you switch between Morphic and MVC?

-- Anything else notable happen?

Cheers,
Bob 

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:33:39 -0800 Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday 20 February 2001 21:15, Ned Konz wrote:
>> I'm using the 3.0pre2 Unix VM under Linux 2.4.0, with a 3.1 image.
>> What I'm finding is that:
>>
>>   * normally things run pretty well; if I do a Message Tally I see about
>> 80% of the time being spent in Delay>>wait. The CPU usage is below 5% for
>> Squeak.
>>
>>   * sometimes, though, Squeak uses about 100% of a CPU, and if I do a
>> similar Message Tally, I see 75% of the time being spent in
>> EventSensor>>nextEventFromQueue.
>>
>> It can go from the "good" state to the "bad" state just by being left alone
>> with no interaction.
>>
>> Saving the image, quitting, and restarting fixes this problem.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>OK, more details: I did about 10 seconds of MessageTally without moving the 
>mouse.
>
>Here's when it gets slow (system CPU at 95%  for Squeak process):
> - 558 tallies, 9715 msec.
>
>**Tree**
>99.8% {9696ms} DisplayScreen>>doOneCycleMorphic
>  99.8% {9696ms} PasteUpMorph>>doOneCycle
>    99.8% {9696ms} WorldState>>doOneCycleFor:
>      95.0% {9229ms} WorldState>>doOneCycleNowFor:
>        |89.4% {8685ms} HandMorph>>processEvents
>        |  |89.2% {8666ms} EventSensor>>nextEvent
>        |  |  89.2% {8666ms} EventSensor>>nextEventSynthesized
>        |  |    46.8% {4547ms} EventSensor>>primKbdNext
>        |  |    42.5% {4129ms} EventSensor>>primMousePt
>        |5.6% {544ms} PasteUpMorph>>runStepMethods
>        |  5.6% {544ms} WorldState>>runStepMethodsIn:
>        |    5.6% {544ms} WorldState>>runLocalStepMethodsIn:
>        |      2.7% {262ms} StepMessage(MorphicAlarm)>>value:
>        |        2.7% {262ms} NCLineEndConstraintMorph(Morph)>>stepAt:
>      4.8% {466ms} WorldState>>interCyclePause:
>        4.8% {466ms} Delay>>wait