Startup/shutdown anecdote
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I just had an experience that fuels my session manager fire. I loaded Pharo, and it was totally unresponsive. Why? I can't be absolutely certain, but here's my story: last night, I had an open connection to a system visible only with a vpn. With the vpn not in use, either Pharo (or more likely ODBC) went nuts because it could not find the server, and I finally killed the process, started the vpn, and all was well on the next startup. IMHO, hanging like that is one of the worst things software can do, and I think we can do a lot to fix it with a few simple changes.
Linux ODBC is probably partly to blame, but it should not have been invoked so early in statup. Someone recently argued against lazy connections, but this would not have happened if they were part of the design. The image would have become helpless once I did something that triggered database activity, but that is where overlapped calls enter the picture. Even without the, at least I would have been able to use the image. Note that if I had taken the offending image to another machine, it could have been useless - not good. Bill _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
Re: Startup/shutdown anecdote
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[hidden email]> wrote: I just had an experience that fuels my session manager fire. I loaded Pharo, and it was totally unresponsive. Why? I can't be absolutely certain, but here's my story: last night, I had an open connection to a system visible only with a vpn. With the vpn not in use, either Pharo (or more likely ODBC) went nuts because it could not find the server, and I finally killed the process, started the vpn, and all was well on the next startup. IMHO, hanging like that is one of the worst things software can do, and I think we can do a lot to fix it with a few simple changes. I don't know if I understood you. What does your ODBc drivers do on startup ? did you put some object in the startup/shutdown list ? best Mariano Bill _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
Re: Startup/shutdown anecdote
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Mariano,
I did not have to put anything in the startup/shutdown
lists. In keeping with the state of the art in Squeak/Pharo, the ODBC
package breaks and reconnects everything across snapshots vs. on shutdown and
true starts. Add to that a pre-production vpn (University's fault)
and a particularly stubborn odbc driver[*], and Pharo came to a grinding
hault. There was no way to tell it to back off on the Sisyphean
task. Still being on that machine, I restarted the vpn, loaded the image,
and save it again, but a change to session managment would skip the
hassle.
Bill
[*] I assume that is the problem at least. It had
no hope of finding the server, and appeared not to recognize same and report it
as an error. Ubuntu informed me that the vm was waiting on a connecting
socket, so it fits.
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Mariano Martinez Peck Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:52 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Startup/shutdown anecdote On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[hidden email]>
wrote: I just had an experience that fuels my session manager fire. I loaded Pharo, and it was totally unresponsive. Why? I can't be absolutely certain, but here's my story: last night, I had an open connection to a system visible only with a vpn. With the vpn not in use, either Pharo (or more likely ODBC) went nuts because it could not find the server, and I finally killed the process, started the vpn, and all was well on the next startup. IMHO, hanging like that is one of the worst things software can do, and I think we can do a lot to fix it with a few simple changes. I don't know if I understood you. What does your ODBc drivers do on startup ? did you put some object in the startup/shutdown list ? best Mariano Bill _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
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