source.squeak.org server latency

I believe I found the cause of the timeouts and it looks like an easy fix...

What I suspected.  It's the foreground Magma commit (e.g., while you
wait) that is getting blocked waiting on a Mutex which is occupied by
the background indexing process.

At first I thought to make the foreground commit occur in the
background so that control can be returned to the user quickly, but
since the background process issues its own commit anyway, the
foreground commit is actually totally superfluous.  I plan to remove
it entirely which will basically leave the user experience identical
to a file-based only, which should greatly reduce (hopefully
eliminate) the timeouts.

Along with that will be an upgrade of the VM, image, and code base,
including Chronology (to Dave's UTCDateAndTime).  Just a little more
patience please for all of these upgrades to be done.

 - Chris
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 7:30 PM Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]> wrote: