[BUG] Low Space problem in 3.0 (and 3.1.3696)

Helge Horch Helge.Horch at munich.netsurf.de
Sun Feb 25 23:36:14 UTC 2001


At 14:34 25.02.2001 -0800, Andreas Raab wrote:
>[...] you could a) run out of swap space (which is a Very Bad Thing if
>it really happens) and b) that an infinite loop would keep allocating huge
>amounts of memory. As it is, you get a low space warning when you hit the
>boundary and the low space warning is a useful thing to have.
>
>[Hm ... makes me wonder how the commercial ST versions deal with that
>problem. Anyone dare to comment?!]

I cannot comment on it myself, but I know that John keeps a couple of 
interesting papers on VW's scheme at

<http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/papers/papersandpresentations.html>

HTH,
Helge





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