[iyonix-support] Re: Lazy Task Swapping on Iyonix/RISC OS 5.11

In article <5956913a4e.tigger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Nick Roberts <tigger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been following this thread with some concern, in case BookMaker
> itself is causing the freeze, but for the life of me I can't work out
> what could be going wrong. It certainly isn't a particularly
> widespread error, or I would have expected more error reports; and if
> you aren't actually doing anything with BookMaker at the time I can't
> work out why BM suddenly decides to do something different on this
> poll than it did on the previous few thousand.

Indeed; it struck me though reading this thread that I've had lots of
crashes of BM on my RO 3.70 system (as reported to you in Feb 2001 and
Aug 2002) where BM, when not being asked to do something, suddenly
falls over, or eg when using Oregano V1 the browser appears to hang and
when I press Alt-Break it is BM that is first offered to be stopped.

At the time I noted that I usually started BM from Oregano's !Run file
so although !Oregano was running BM might well be the next task on the
wimp's list of active tasks.

[This hasn't happened for a long time, but that's probably because I no
longer run BM all the time - I only start it when I want to store or
look-up a bookmark.]

The oddest thing about the RO 3.70 system is that it has 258MB RAM.

-- 
Jeremy C B Nicoll, Edinburgh, Scotland - my opinions are my own.
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