On 15 July 2011 12:39, Guido Stepken <[email protected]> wrote: > I am doing server tuning, building up fast server systems for a very long > time now. > > Yesterday i installed 1.2.1, expecting to see a far more matured Pharo > Smalltalk, stable, pretty nice new features. > > I opened up the Memory Grapher, hmmm.... works fine, watching memory pumping. > A bit strange, seeing a Pharo consuming and freeing megabytes of memory space > without any load. But ok! > > Then i opened up TestSuites, marked some tests, let them run. Ups! Desktop > hanging. > > I expected to have with Pharo a well done, stable multitasking environment, > but Pharo hangs everywhere, is leaking lots of memory, is keeping up > connections, wasting resources unneccessarily, having problems with internal > race conditions on semaphores, mutexes, feels same like "Big Kernel Lock", > but even without MultiProcessing. > > The Pharo Team IMHO is very much missing important knowledge about modern > Operating System Design, what Pharo Smalltalk OS is in fact, without being > able to fulfill the minimum standards i expect from a usable Smalltalk OS. > > As system operator or enterprise i cannot offer such a system, that has to be > restarted twenty times a day, due to hangs, memory leaks, sucking connection > handles, ..., whatever! > > tnx for your understanding! > > regards, Guido Stepken >
>From an outsider point of view, your message is ok: "i took a glance on system and found it inappropriate for my tasks, so i will not use it". Fine. Now, from an insider point of view, your message is worthless, because it doesn't contains any concrete proposals to make things better (to your thinking). We would like to improve our system to make it good enough for people like you. But we need help. So, every time you saying 'i don't like X', you should also argument that and propose better solution. If you not doing that, but instead using vague statements, you just wasting own and our time. Lets be concrete and constructive. Pharo is far from perfect. And everyone understands that. You made no discovery. Now, ask yourself how your message helps to improve that? -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
