low space and 2.8 image/vm, a question...

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Thu Oct 5 02:03:26 UTC 2000


On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:46:45 -0700 John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>I've a 2.8 image and at some point it locks up and becomes 
>unresponsive. If I look via macsbugs I can see it's looping between 
>new: and a fullgc triggered by insufficent memory found after doing a 
>new:
>
>My question is there some interesting bugs in the 2.8 image that 
>cause issues when you run low on memory. Shouldn't I have gotten a 
>dialog up saying there is a problem?
>
>Why I run out of memory is another issue, but first why am I hung out 
>to dry so to speak...

John,

Yes, there is a problem. SystemDictionary>>lowSpaceWatcher has problems in 2.8. You can find some temporary relief in change set 2522 (2.9a) which should be applicable to 2.8 as well.

Cheers,
Bob





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