You need to use a VM that supports setGCBiasToGrowGCLimit Which VM are you using?
Also to turn it on you need to do Smalltalk setGCBiasToGrow: 1.
Other GC tuning values are below. The values given below have no meaning for your application and may make it better, may make it worse.
Smalltalk vmParameterAt: 5 put: 8000. "do an incremental GC after this many allocations" Smalltalk vmParameterAt: 6 put: 4000. "tenure when more than this many objects survive the GC"
Smalltalk vmParameterAt: 25 put: 24*1024*1024. "grow headroom" Smalltalk vmParameterAt: 24 put: 48*1024*1024. "shrink threshold"
setGCBiasToGrowGCLimit in SystemDictionnary (Smalltalk setGCBiasToGrowGCLimit: 16*1024*1024). but it doesn't work and popup a "a primitive has failed" error. Is it the right method ?
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