Re: [Pharo-users] Stability of Pharo 7 vs 6?

[Alexandre Bergel via Pharo-users]

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Personally, when I leave P7 open for a few hours, it slows down significantly. 
I have to save the image and open it back to not have any slug. 

Cheers,
Alexandre


http://bergel.eu

> Le 15 févr. 2019 à 08:11, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> a écrit :
> 
> I’m not sure if this is born out by others - but I’m finding that Pharo 7 is 
> a bit less stable than Pharo 6 - I’m seeing quite a few seg-faults where the 
> vm dies and terminates - both when the image is left running for a while, but 
> also in fresh images where I do an Iceberg load of my projects. I’ve also 
> seen a lot of weird things like corrupted fonts and keyboard focus/cursor 
> keys not working properly.
> 
> From memory - I saw a lot less of this in Pharo 6 when I first moved to it.
> 
> Possibly my usage is a bit different (although I’m not sure) - but in all the 
> cases above I’m using OSX (HighSierra - so the same Mac OS as Pharo 6) - with 
> the 64bit vm and running full screen.
> 
> One thing that seems to help (but this is an early empirical observation) - 
> if I save my image to a new name - this seems to help. So I’m wondering if 
> there might be something in the build process that has changed and is causing 
> some sort of instability? 
> 
> I haven’t done this long enough to really comment - but from all of the 
> above, having a Pharo.1.image seemed to stop my problems.
> 
> Possibly I’ve been unlucky - but of 7 images I’ve used in the last 2 weeks - 
> 5 of them have had issues. I did notice that half of these images were the 
> rc1 build 1436 setup (as I hadn’t noticed that the blessed 7.0 stable image 
> has a different version number (previously, the last builds in PL Pharo 7 
> development - was the stable version - unless work then went forward for a 
> Pharo 7.1. I liked to nab the dev version so that I know the build number to 
> report it. I now see the about Pharo in the image also lists this number). 
> Also some of my images were retrieved via zeroConf in the terminal (again, 
> not sure if this makes a difference - but did that a lot with P6 too).
> 
> This isn’t a complaint per se - as we need to move the platform forward and 
> forge new approaches. So I really mention it to try and help diagnose the 
> issues - or possibly understand if I’m doing something weird.
> 
> Tim

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