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Pavel Perikov

7.5nc stability under Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.2)

Hi list.

Does anyone experience huge instability problems? VM crashes when
loading large bundles from Store (press Cmd-H to increase your
chances), it crashes on garbage collection etc... Are there any plans
to deliver more stable VM?

Pavel

Alan Knight-2

Re: 7.5nc stability under Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.2)

There has been a great deal of work on the MacOSX VM for 7.6, which is currently in release candidates, and so should ship shortly. So, yes.

At 12:20 PM 2/20/2008, Pavel Perikov wrote:

Hi list.

Does anyone experience huge instability problems? VM crashes when
loading large bundles from Store (press Cmd-H to increase your
chances), it crashes on garbage collection etc... Are there any plans
to deliver more stable VM?

Pavel

Alan Knight [|], Cincom Smalltalk Development

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James Robertson-7

Re: 7.5nc stability under Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.2)

Just to add a small application level note to this, I've been running a VW 7.6 based build of BottomFeeder on my MacBook Pro for over a month now, without any crashes, and I'm doing most of my development work for Bf and for the server that runs our site on the Mac.

So yes, 7.6 is a huge improvement - kudos to the VM team for their hard work on this.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Alan Knight wrote:

There has been a great deal of work on the MacOSX VM for 7.6, which is currently in release candidates, and so should ship shortly. So, yes.

At 12:20 PM 2/20/2008, Pavel Perikov wrote:

Hi list.

Does anyone experience huge instability problems? VM crashes when
loading large bundles from Store (press Cmd-H to increase your
chances), it crashes on garbage collection etc... Are there any plans
to deliver more stable VM?

Pavel

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Carl Gundel

Re: 7.5nc stability under Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.2)

If we run a 7.4.1 image on the 7.6 vm do we get some of the stability improvement or do we need the new image also?

-Carl Gundel

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:17 PM, James Robertson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just to add a small application level note to this, I've been running a VW 7.6 based build of BottomFeeder on my MacBook Pro for over a month now, without any crashes, and I'm doing most of my development work for Bf and for the server that runs our site on the Mac.

So yes, 7.6 is a huge improvement - kudos to the VM team for their hard work on this.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Alan Knight wrote:

There has been a great deal of work on the MacOSX VM for 7.6, which is currently in release candidates, and so should ship shortly. So, yes.

At 12:20 PM 2/20/2008, Pavel Perikov wrote:

Hi list.

Does anyone experience huge instability problems? VM crashes when
loading large bundles from Store (press Cmd-H to increase your
chances), it crashes on garbage collection etc... Are there any plans
to deliver more stable VM?

Pavel

--

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James Robertson-7

Re: 7.5nc stability under Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.2)

I'm going to have to let someone else address that, as I ported my code forward.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Carl Gundel wrote:

If we run a 7.4.1 image on the 7.6 vm do we get some of the stability improvement or do we need the new image also?

-Carl Gundel

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:17 PM, James Robertson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just to add a small application level note to this, I've been running a VW 7.6 based build of BottomFeeder on my MacBook Pro for over a month now, without any crashes, and I'm doing most of my development work for Bf and for the server that runs our site on the Mac.

So yes, 7.6 is a huge improvement - kudos to the VM team for their hard work on this.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Alan Knight wrote:

There has been a great deal of work on the MacOSX VM for 7.6, which is currently in release candidates, and so should ship shortly. So, yes.

At 12:20 PM 2/20/2008, Pavel Perikov wrote:

Hi list.

Does anyone experience huge instability problems? VM crashes when
loading large bundles from Store (press Cmd-H to increase your
chances), it crashes on garbage collection etc... Are there any plans
to deliver more stable VM?

Pavel

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Carl Gundel

Re: 7.5nc stability under Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.2)

I intend to move forward to a newer image eventually, but in the immediate future I want to support my 7.4.1 based Seaside 2.6 app on the Mac without porting the code.

-Carl Gundel

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:38 PM, James Robertson <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm going to have to let someone else address that, as I ported my code forward.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Carl Gundel wrote:

If we run a 7.4.1 image on the 7.6 vm do we get some of the stability improvement or do we need the new image also?

-Carl Gundel

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:17 PM, James Robertson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just to add a small application level note to this, I've been running a VW 7.6 based build of BottomFeeder on my MacBook Pro for over a month now, without any crashes, and I'm doing most of my development work for Bf and for the server that runs our site on the Mac.

So yes, 7.6 is a huge improvement - kudos to the VM team for their hard work on this.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Alan Knight wrote:

There has been a great deal of work on the MacOSX VM for 7.6, which is currently in release candidates, and so should ship shortly. So, yes.

At 12:20 PM 2/20/2008, Pavel Perikov wrote:

Hi list.

Does anyone experience huge instability problems? VM crashes when
loading large bundles from Store (press Cmd-H to increase your
chances), it crashes on garbage collection etc... Are there any plans
to deliver more stable VM?

Pavel

--

Alan Knight [|], Cincom Smalltalk Development

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Glazier, Sean

RE: 7.5nc stability under Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.2)

In reply to this post by James Robertson-7

I tired it and it seems to work just fine. One caveat. There were changes to fonts that required both image and engine fixes to be complete, but the engine fix should not affect the old image detrimentally.

So I would say yes you can (at your own risk of course) but a port is more preferable. I think though that it would work a whole lot better than what you have now.

Sean

From: James Robertson [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:38 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: 7.5nc stability under Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.2)

I'm going to have to let someone else address that, as I ported my code forward.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Carl Gundel wrote:

If we run a 7.4.1 image on the 7.6 vm do we get some of the stability improvement or do we need the new image also?

-Carl Gundel

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:17 PM, James Robertson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just to add a small application level note to this, I've been running a VW 7.6 based build of BottomFeeder on my MacBook Pro for over a month now, without any crashes, and I'm doing most of my development work for Bf and for the server that runs our site on the Mac.

So yes, 7.6 is a huge improvement - kudos to the VM team for their hard work on this.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Alan Knight wrote:

There has been a great deal of work on the MacOSX VM for 7.6, which is currently in release candidates, and so should ship shortly. So, yes.

At 12:20 PM 2/20/2008, Pavel Perikov wrote:

Hi list.

Does anyone experience huge instability problems? VM crashes when
loading large bundles from Store (press Cmd-H to increase your
chances), it crashes on garbage collection etc... Are there any plans
to deliver more stable VM?

Pavel

--

Alan Knight [|], Cincom Smalltalk Development

[hidden email]

[hidden email]

http://www.cincom.com/smalltalk