[squeak-dev] source.squeak.org stuck Mutex again

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Apr 20 23:14:38 UTC 2018


On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 05:08:52PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> The source.squeak.org server got stuck on a Mutex again.  Here's a
> picture of the waiting processes on the server, along with an
> inspector on the Mutex.
> 
> Back when Mutex was pure Smalltalk if this happened I could just
> signal its internal Semaphore and off it would go, delayed processes
> would eventually run.  But it's all hidden in the VM now, so the only
> viable thing I can do is restart the image.

This is a complete shot in the dark, and you probably have already
done this, but would sending #primmitiveExitCriticalSection to the
mutex do the trick?

Dave



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