Windows: "not responding"

[Ralph DiMola]

Same here. Many Windows apps do it. It seems that Windows can't tell the difference between heavy I/O and a true "Not Responding" I have seen this behavior since Win 3.1 and it hasn't changes all the way to Win 10. It especially happens when there is heavy I/O is on a SMB share. I suspect it's a locking algorithm that does not always know why it's still waiting for a lock to be released. I work on Windows, Mac and a little Linux. It seems Linux handles this much better.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Brian Milby via use-livecode
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2018 2:14 PM
To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com; How to use LiveCode
Cc: Brian Milby
Subject: Re: Windows: "not responding"

I don’t think this is an issue exclusive to LC. My main Access DB has code that will do the same thing. Sometimes things come back fine because it was just busy (SharePoint issues do cause it to get totally hung sometimes as well though).

Thanks,
Brian
On Aug 7, 2018, 1:07 PM -0500, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> On 8/7/2018 1:58 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> > We've discussed many times here the anomaly in which an LC process 
> > on Windows is running quite fine, but when it's working really hard 
> > the OS starts monkeying with the window appearance, adding the 
> > string "application is not responding" in the title bar.
> >
> > In all cases I've see thus far, the app itself is fine, but 
> > apparently it's not yielding enough cycles to the OS for the OS to 
> > feel comfortable about the relationship.
> >
> > Based on early conversations here, I had thought that a solution 
> > addressing this was in progress, but checking the bug DB I can't 
> > find even a report for this at all, let alone one noting "In Progress".
> >
> > Anyone here know the status of this issue?  Should I file a new 
> > report on it?
> >
> I run into to this symptom more often than I would like to see as well.
>
>
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