gotchas (was re: [OT] Rev on Linux PPC - Would you use it?)

[Alex Rice]

On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:46 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:

> For me Rev 2.1 crashes a good deal, on Mac OSs O9.2.2 and 10.2.8 and 
> on Windows XP. Not a RAM issue, I think (the Windows machine has 256Mb 
> and the Mac 448mb). It's usually something to do with quitting Rev 
> when the thing I'm working on has its own 'quit' script, or when I try 
> to purge out the thing I've been working on (Save, then Close and 
> Remove from Memory) and then try to start working on another stack 
> file. The Distribution Builder sometimes suffers in the same way (try 
> to close it then go on to something else). This is all slightly hard 
> to pin down - doesn't happen with obvious consistency, so I have never 
> been quite sure enough of any of the sequences to produce exact 
> formulae for bugzilla.

FWIW I think that Rev 2.1.1 RC1 is a big improvement stability-wise. 
I'm running OS X. 2.1.1 RC1 crashes now and then, but not nearly as 
much as in past versions.

My opinion: shortage of memory can't cause Rev to crash. OS X and Linux 
both have really good virtual memory systems. Unlike Mac OS Classic 
where if any app is not allocated enough memory it will go haywire or 
crash. In OS X and Linux (and WinNT,2K,XP?) when you run low on memory, 
your system merely starts to thrash with disk activity as memory starts 
to page in and out.

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