Thanks John & Tim, for these suggestions. I'll continue debugging
tonight (have to work in VisualAge today, work hard, earn money) and
post as I make progress (or not).

Regards,

Cees

On 2/2/06, John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> Well if you recall a couple of weeks back I had a changeset that
> turns on printing of the stack
> in message send, so you can see the stack on each message send by
> process.
>
> Mind you'll need to build a VM for this, plus write some code to read
> the log file and
> determine how the semaphore signalling is done.
>
> Or of course change the VM to note the excessive semaphore signalling
> and print the stack when it
> happens, and as Tim points out use the Special objects array to track
> the semaphore of interest.
>
>
>
> On 1-Feb-06, at 3:42 PM, Cees De Groot wrote:
>
> > On 2/1/06, Cees De Groot <cdegroot at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On IRC, Jecel Assumpção remarks that the Semaphore in both cases is
> >> 'in rest' - excessSignals is 1, where 0 would be expected when the
> >> critical section is active. And -1 when two critical sections are
> >> active :-)
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions on how we could proceed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cees
> >
>
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