Try a full garbage collect after the system comes
up and see whether the stuff goes away then.  You
may have hit a problem where a second full
gc helps or it may be that your garbage is not in
fact garbage.  If the latter and you have been invoking
via expression evaluation on the fly, you might try
a 'Smalltalk forgetDoIts' and then a gc or two.
Also, beware of the pernicious workspace variables
(try closing any editors you have been evaluating
expressions in).  Failing the above, you will need
to do some reference tracing to find the unexpected
owner(s).

frank


At 10:20 PM 1/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>In a fit of pique I wrote:
>> My concern is more along the lines of dumping images that contain
>> passwords and session keys.
>
>Well, I seem to have my answer; sensitive interleaved garbage IS
>getting dumped into the image when I exit via 'Save and quit.'  A
>look through InterpGCC tells me that a compaction is performed when
>fullGC() is called during the snapshot.  Can anyone explain why I'm
>able to find leftover garbage in the image I get from 'save and
>quit' in the menu, but not: Smalltalk snapshot: true andQuite: true?
>
>My brain hurts!
>
>-- 
>Christopher Oliver                     Traverse Communications
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>oliver at traverse.com                    Traverse City, Michigan, 49684
>   (define magic (lambda (f) (lambda (x) x)))
>   (define (more-magic n) (lambda (f) (lambda (x) (f ((n f) x)))))
>
>
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