Well in someone's spare time someone might review the page list below  
and Rob Withers' comments
at
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2000-July/021307.html
original code at
http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/html/OTNotes4.html

Grab the socket test suite and rework for the latest socket  
implementation.

This suite was used by Ian and I a few years back to beat on the Unix  
Socket implementation, it also if I recall
uncovered a Socket issue in the beta version of NetBSD Ian was using.


On Dec 23, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>> So which parts do we need to fix to make the Semaphore, Socket and
>> image freezing problems go away?
>
> For semaphores I'd recommend the fixes that I've posted over the  
> year. For sockets I am not aware of any evidence that indicate a  
> socket issue (we had a few issues that at first looked like sockets  
> were related but turned out not) but I'd like to hear any evidence  
> that points to sockets as the cause of problems. As far as I can  
> tell the socket implementation is very robust right now. For image  
> freezes -in particular in Squeaksource- you probably need to fix the  
> concurrency issues in Squeaksource itself. The last time I checked  
> the code was not robust enough by far against concurrent  
> modifications (parallel commits etc).
>
>> As for scaling and production quality do you seriously expect me to  
>> do
>> this for free in my spare time?
>
> That depends on whether or not you seriously expect for example the  
> VM people to fix the VM problems in their spare time for free. If  
> the answer is yes, then the answer is yes.
>
>> We fixed performance the problems and now run seriously faster than
>> source.impara.de while being much bigger.
>
> That's great to hear. I wish you would have told me a couple of  
> months ago how to achieve that when I was asking (repeatedly) the  
> same questions.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>

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