squeak using high CPU, reporting little use

Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org
Sun Jul 3 18:19:37 UTC 2005


squeak gets in this odd state where it consumes lots of cpu according
to the operating system tools, but when I do a debug message tally it
reports over 90% of the time in idle.

Doing a save always clears up the problem (perhaps because of a global
garbage collect?).


Smalltalk vmVersion gives
'Squeak3.8gamma of ''24 November 2004'' [latest update: #6548]'

Running on linux with a largish image (57Mg).

The image itself is a bit old, with #4956 the last update; I think
that makes it 3.6 era.

Any ideas what's going on?



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