> Hi Max,
>
> On 16 May 2017 15:40, "Max Leske" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>      
>     Hi Alistair,
>
>         On 16 May 2017, at 15:32, [hidden email]
>         wrote:
>
>         Hi Max,
>
>         I can't answer your question directly, but just wondering why you are
>         using
>         the itimer VM when the are known issues with external calls, and not
>         the
>         heartbeat VM?
>
>     Because of the root user issue, and also because I don't care about that
>     much at the moment. I'm still experimenting and for those experiments it
>     doesn't matter which VM I use. Thirdly, the itimer VM is the one I get when
>     I use 'curl get.pharo.org/60+vmLatest | bash', which is convenient to get
>     the latest VM, and to minimise differences between the VM's we built the
>     same one. I will definitely consider using the threaded VM for production.
>
>         P.S. I would love to see OSProcess working in 32 bit mode.
>
>     Well, it does work already, just not when we build the VM ourselves :/
>
> Interesting, I had the impression that for Pharo 6 OSProcess didn't work in
> 32bits, only 64, but I'm also building my own VM.  I'm away from my PC, but
> I'll try and take a look.