[squeak-dev] RemoteTask for poor man's multiprocessing with Squeak

Mike Hales mike.hales at kscape.com
Thu Jan 28 16:27:59 UTC 2010


I did not build my own. I did look in the vm app resources, and there is a
UnixOSProcessPlugin.bundle. There is definately not an AIO plugin though,
and I did get a pop-up saying AIO was not found, using polling instead.

Mike

Mike Hales
Engineering Manager
KnowledgeScape
www.kscape.com


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:10 AM, David Corking <lists at dcorking.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 27, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
> >> I tried it on my dual core intel mac (older 32 bit one), and the VM
> >> (Squeak4.3.1 Beta1U) crashed. So I loaded the OSProcess tests into an up
> to
> >> date trunk image, and running the tests in UnixProcessTestCase crashed
> the
> >> VM. This also happens in the Pharo Dev 1.0 RC2.
> >
> > Obviously crashing the VM is not acceptable regardless of what the
> application
> > is doing, so something is badly wrong here.
>
> As far as I can tell, the Cocoa and Carbon VMs do not ship with
> pre-built plugins necessary for OSProcess.  I naively tried David's
> test with a couple and crashed the VM each time.  Mike, did you build
> your own OSProcess and AIO plugins?
>
> (I tried one of Ian Piumarta's Unix VMs for Darwin, because it came
> with pre-built plugins, and it didn't crash the VM, but several of the
> tests in Test-OSProcess failed.  I chose not to document it or pursue
> it further, partly because Mac OS X 10.4 is not supported by recent
> VMs.)
>
> David: which image and VM did you use?
>
>
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