[Seaside] image unable to start correctly...space problem?

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 10:15:42 UTC 2007


2007/11/18, Ching de la Serna <ching.dls at gmail.com>:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> I am using Squeak (I presume when you mentioned VW you meant Visual
> Works?) I have 4GB of physical memory

No I meant VM. You a single process on a 32bit OS will never have 4 GB
of virtual memory. In general you are limited to 2 GB of virtual
memory unless you play special tricks. This is completely independend
of your physical memory size

Cheers
Philippe

> Thanks,
>
> Ching
>
> On Nov 18, 2007 6:01 PM, Philippe Marschall
> <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/11/18, Ching de la Serna <ching.dls at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Hi Seaside,
> > >
> > > This problem has been bedeviling me for a long time now. I could not
> > > properly start my image after I got a message, "Space is low". When I
> > > checked, Squeak.exe process was reported to be 800,000 MB and I had
> > > 2GB of memory. Several other processes were competing with the 2GB
> > > memory.
> > >
> > > I proceeded to try to solve this by adding more memory. Now, I have 4
> > > GB of physical memory and my app started fine. When I proceeded to add
> > > more methods and tried to save, I lost my app in that it stopped and
> > > would not start again. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? my
> > > image is a little over 800 MB and my memory manager reports available
> > > memory in excess of 2GB
> >
> > There is a difference between physical and virtual memory. Using
> > Squeak images of this size is unknown territory. You'll have to use a
> > recent VW and are very likely to spend a considerable amount of time
> > on garbage collection.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
> >
> > > Thanks for the help,
> > >
> > > Ching
> >
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