On 06 Jul 2011, at 10:40, Janko Miv�ek wrote:

If I recall others have also problems with sockets in Pharo, so here is

the my current image, which:

- has 105 Sockets open, mostly waiting

- has also >105 processes open

- consumes 100% cpu

- on aSocket close responds with primitive failure

- image is workable, I can browse etc.

- Pharo1.2.2a on Linux

Sockets are waiting on Socket>>waitForConnectionFor:ifTimeOut:

Is that number of open sockets and processes by design or not ? If they keep coming back, you must be creating them. Your application has to keep these (expensive) resources under control to start with.

Long running Seaside images seem to be fine and they are using sockets and processes a lot.

Socket have #close and #destroy, there might be a difference.

I think that part of the cleanup of sockets is delayed (using finalization) and needs some GC work to complete. GC policies might be involved as well as weak datastructures.

I am also interested in knowning the practical upper bound for open sockets and number of processes.

Sven