[Vm-dev] Mac VM not responding - any ideas?

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Sat Aug 13 12:33:41 UTC 2011


I occasionally get Squeak into a state that it can only be killed. Any
suggestions? 

Using the Squeak 4.2 all-in-one 
MacOS 10.5.8 

VM: Mac OS - Smalltalk [that's literally what it says!] 
Image: Squeak4.2 [latest update: #10966] 

here's another take on VM version: 
Virtual Machine 
--------------- 
/Users/bob/squeak/SE squeak 4.2.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak VM Opt 
Squeak3.8.1 of '28 Aug 2006' [latest update: #6747] 4.2 
Mac Carbon 4.2.4b1 28-Mar-10 >45CAAEAC-5A1E-4327-9702-7973E3473FDE< 

--here is what Activity Monitor thinks is going on-- 
Sampling process 61351 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between
samples 
Sampling completed, processing symbols... 
Analysis of sampling Squeak VM Opt (pid 61351) every 1 millisecond 
Call graph: 
    2482 Thread_2507 
      1856 accessibleObjectAfter 
        1856 accessibleObjectAfter 
      626 primitiveSomeInstance 
        626 primitiveSomeInstance 
    2482 Thread_2603 
      2482 thread_start 
        2482 _pthread_start 
          2482 TimerThread 
            2482 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon 
              2482 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative 
                2482 pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np 
                  2482 _pthread_cond_wait 
                    2477 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap 
                      2477 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap 
                    5 _pthread_cond_wait 
    2482 Thread_2703 
      2482 thread_start 
        2482 _pthread_start 
          2482 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) 
            2482 HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*) 
              2482 CFRunLoopRunInMode 
                2482 CFRunLoopRunSpecific 
                  2482 mach_msg 
                    2482 mach_msg_trap 
                      2482 mach_msg_trap 

Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5): 

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5): 
        mach_msg_trap        2482 
        semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap        2477 
        accessibleObjectAfter        1856 
        primitiveSomeInstance        626 
        _pthread_cond_wait        5 
Sample analysis of process 61351 written to file /dev/stdout 

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