What happens if you are not using your local machine? Could it be that a
working strategy is to use Netscape for local access and anything on
other machines.
Peace and Luck!
Je77
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:01:49PM +0100, Alejandro Fernandez wrote:
> Hi,
> I already gave it a try with Com47Swiki12 to see if the problem with IE
> was solved. It look it is not completelly gone. The console error does
> not appear (telling about not enough resources) but Squeaks still hangs.
> Takes the CPU to 90% percent, grows 20 megs in memory (as reported by
> windows) and goes down both in memory and processor just to continue
> growing.
> I tried this on a windows 2000, IE 5 running on the same machine,
> hitting the reload button 20 times in 8 seconds :)
> After 5 minutes I just killed it.
> I tried it both with the 3.0 image and the new, totally up-to-date 3.1.
>
> I still have the same behavior with the pictures on the swiki menu bar;
> some of them are not displayed.
> With Netscape works fine.
>
> :(
>
> Just to let you know.
>
> Saludos,
> Casco
>
>
> "Raab, Andreas" wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > There's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is that you'll probably
> > have to download a new VM. The good news is that you probably *want* to ;-)
> > Some serious improvements and fixes have been made in this latest VM,
> > including:
> >
> > * dynamic growth of ObjectMemory:
> > Yeah! Finally. No more -memory:, no more space low warnings unless you *are*
> > out of memory. Note that this is why I consider it a 3.1alpha1 VM; the
> > changes do work with older images but it's really a 3.1 feature. If you're
> > updated through the last series of changes that Dan posted for 3.1 then you
> > should get this VM and do a "space left" - could be interesting ;-)
> > [BTW, if you're interested in what is going on under the hood, then go into
> > the VM preferences and turn on "show allocation activity" - this will print
> > out when the OM is actually growing and shrinking]
> > IMPORTANT: If you're planning to use this VM with 3.0 images you should get
> > the change set 3723SizeHint-ar from the 3.1 update stream. Otherwise it
> > might be that the project publishing mechanism tries to allocate huge (and I
> > mean: HUUUUGGGGGEEEEE) amounts of memory. It'll work without the CS but it's
> > a gigantic waste of resources.
> >
> > * fixes for the networking code:
> > The new VM limits the stack size to 128k and should allow for at least 200
> > sockets to be open concurrently. I also fixed the code so that it fails the
> > primitive cleanly when the threads cannot be created. I'd be interested in
> > seeing how many sockets can be open on NT in parallel (I've only tried on
> > '98). Here's how you can find out:
> >
> > | index tmp s |
> > Socket initializeNetworkIfFail:[^0].
> > index _ 0.
> > tmp _ WriteStream on: #().
> > [s _ Socket new.
> > s isValid] whileTrue:[
> > index _ index + 1.
> > tmp nextPut: s].
> > tmp contents do:[:sock| sock destroy].
> > ^index
> >
> > [BTW, I'm seriously considering to switch once again to a different
> > implementation of the socket prims, using only a single thread and event
> > notification which should basically put up the limit of socket creation to
> > virtual infinity]
> >
> > * fixes for the display code:
> > Some of you have seen those weird error messages saying "SetDIBitsToDevice()
> > failed". While running the socket tests I found that the error reported was
> > just nonsense (invalid argument where it should say out of resources). This
> > has been fixed as well (cost you a factor of five in speed if you need it
> > but still better than not seeing anything on screen ;-)
> >
> > * MSVC fixes:
> > Some places that were incorrectly relying on certain MingW features have
> > been fixed. I've included the Makefile that Phiho Hoang posted (thanks!) so
> > that an MSVC build should work out of the box again. Please try.
> >
> > Okay, that's it. The stuff is in the usual places:
> > http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/SqueakExe.zip [VM only]
> > http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/Squeak.zip [VM+image]
> > http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/src/Squeak3.1Alpha1Src.zip
> > [VM sources]
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > - Andreas
>
> --
> Alejandro Fernandez
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> IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems
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