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

Ching de la Serna ching.dls at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 10:25:39 UTC 2007


I see. Do you think I have a memory leak somewhere? Lukas has
suggested killing processes one by one at the process browser. How do
I do this? It does seem unusual that the OS should report 800 MB or
memory being used by the app.

On Nov 18, 2007 6:15 PM, Philippe Marschall
<philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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