[Seaside] Garbage Collection/Handling

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/4/13, John Thornborrow <john at pinesoft.co.uk>:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've recently noticed that despite having tight controls over the number
> of instantiations requested for my objects within my application, there
> is still a large number due to the session handling. This is perfectly
> understandable, but I was wondering if there is a set process for
> garbage collecting?
>
> So far I have been 'do'ing the below items just to clear things down a bit..
>
> "kill seaside processes."
> WAKom stop.
> "make sure they're dead"
> HttpService allInstances do: [:x | x stop].
> "clears cached data"
> WALRUCache allInstances do: [:x | x initialize].
> "clears context data"
> WARenderingContext allInstances do: [:x | x clearMode].
> "expires sessions"
> WASession allInstances do: [:x | x expire].
> "default garbage collection - do this several times just to be sure"
> Smalltalk garbageCollect
>
> Is there anything else I should consider?
>
> Also any pointers for use of control methods in my application would be
> most welcome.. I'm using a registry for my #children methods, and in
> callbacks where applicable (populated by lazy loaders) but I still find
> areas such as child components which render callbacks have to use new
> instantiations, which I'm not keen on. This could be resolved by passing
> the registry further down the chain, but seems overkill just to avoid
> overpopulating. Perhaps the #children method should return only
> classnames and not objects instead?

Squeak is object oriented so creating objects is not considered to be a problem.

Philippe

> Many thanks for any advice.
> John.
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