Subject: Re: hangups/fonts in xscm 1.05 on SGI
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1997/03/07
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <5fo6jn$fhp@tokyo.engr.sgi.com>

Nicholas Pioch  <npioch@bbn.com> wrote:
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|     Overall it's been working well, but the system
| has an annoying tendency to hang up intermittently 
| at certain points in the simulation, usually when 
| it is about to draw a major xscm window.  It's hard 
| to trace the cause because it will alternately fail 
| and then work fine under the same conditions.
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Is the "hang" temporary (a few seconds) or permanent
(i.e., have to kill the process)? If the former,
is what you are seeing perhaps nothing more than
a garbage collection occurring at an incovenient
time?


-Rob

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