On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Paul O'Rorke <p...@ororke.com> wrote:
> > David: I think you are probably right that it is something external > to lift or scala as it seems to be intermittent, happening sometimes > but not others under what seem to be the same circumstances. > > The server process is on a mac book pro laptop for now and it may well > be getting swapped out although not for a screen saver as I am usually > keeping the machine busy working on other things. But wouldn't a > request to the server cause it to be swapped back in again? Yes. This is how virtual memory works. How much RAM is in your machine? Perhaps some Mac-head on the list can tell us how to determine how much of a process is actually swapped to disk. > > > I'm using Safari almost all the time. Thanks for suggesting Chrome as > a good alternative for this application. > > It gives a bit of a feel of flakyness if you go to do something simple > and it doesn't work as intended so I thought it worth noting and will > keep a lookout to see if it happens often enough and regularly enough > that I can replicate it simply somehow. > ---Paul O > > On Feb 23, 2:40 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Paul, > > > > This can result from a number of things: > > > > - The process that's running your web app gets swapped out on the > > server. If you're running on Linux, this is less likely to happen if > you > > have enough RAM. I've seen Windows swamp processes out so it can run > the > > screen saver. > > - Your browser does not do well with long running JavaScript. > Firefox, > > in my experience, is particularly bad about this. I have to restart > Firefox > > almost daily. On the other hand, Google Chrome seems to be the best > browser > > in terms of hanging out on the same page for days, weeks, at a time. > > > > I have a browser window open tohttp://demo.liftweb.netall the time. > Other > > than the above-mentioned need to periodically restart Firefox, the page > is > > always responsive. > > > > If you can put together a reproducable case of this problem, I'll look > into > > it. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Paul O'Rorke <p...@ororke.com> wrote: > > > > > Several times now when I've left a page with Ajax checkboxes and > > > textboxes sitting for a while, and then when I've gone to check a box > > > or type in a textbox, there is no response from the server. In the > > > console window, I see nothing unusual. > > > > > Sometimes I used to get "could not reach server" messages in this sort > > > of situation but I don't seem to be getting those anymore or else I'm > > > just not waiting long enough for them. > > > > > This is in a web app that I want to be able to treat like a desktop > > > app. It has a very long session timeout but I have not changed any > > > other timeouts like the ajax timeout. (Perhaps I should?) > > > > > A workaround is just to reload the page. (I think that tends to > > > happen anyway sort of automatically on my iPhone but not on my > > > desktop.) > > > > -- > > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > > Git some:http://github.com/dpp > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
