Questions about Transcript

Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org
Sun Apr 24 21:04:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 07:59:06PM +0200, karl wrote:
> Ross Boylan wrote:
> 
> >Poking around my image, I discovered I had some huge objects that were
> >the contents of transcripts.
....
> >Second, what's a good way to clear out the junk?  I see various
> >methods that sound in the right neighborhood, but I'm not sure which
> >one to use.  A particular concern is that the associated String has
> >been grown to about 4Mg, though only about 2Mg is in use.  I want to
> >actually free up the memory, not just blank it out or reset the
> >transcript counters.
...
> >
> >This is in a 3.6ish image, if that matters.
> >
> >Ross Boylan
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> Transcript flush
> That should clear up the transcript.
> Karl

TranscriptStream>>flush is a no-op in my image.

I eventually did Transcript on: (String new: 1000).
Transcript reset.

which I hope took care of dependencies.



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