[Newbies] Level Playing Field image compression side effect

[Rob Rothwell]

Sorry for bringing this up again, but nothing works so well for getting an
image back down to size after installing additional packages (especially big
ones, like Aida or Magma) like running LPF.  The fixObsoleteReferences does
nothing...any other ideas?  Whatever it is is present in the pharo script as
well, and does something in a way that doing a garbage collect after the end
of the script immediately shrinks the image--in this case from 50Mb to 25Mb!
Take care,

Rob

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 04:25:37PM -0400, Rob Rothwell wrote:
> >    I have noticed that after installing packages (say for example
> starting
> >    with a dev image and loading everything else you need), my image will
> >    swell considerably (as noticed both on the disk after saving, and with
> >    MemoryUsage).  Garbage collection and saving doesn't seem to fix it,
> but
> >    if I re-run the level playing field script, it seems to clean things
> up.
>
> It's probably because of this line in
> http://installer.pbwiki.com/LevelPlayingField-Monticello15 :
>
>    SmalltalkImage current fixObsoleteReferences
>
> Try running that and see if it helps.
>
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> Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/
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