sweep failed to find exact end of memory

Jens Lincke jens at impara.de
Wed Feb 21 18:37:27 UTC 2007


Hi,

try more swap,

I disabled my swap the second machine, so that I only have 500MB real 
ram left
an the vm did not crash.

I enabled the swap and the vm crashed again... so I think it is

an  issue of signed / unsigned int when memory over 1GB of RAM is allocated.

- Jens -

Pavel Krivanek schrieb:
> Squeak 3.9-7, Gentoo i686, 512 MB RAM, 800 MB Swap
> 8 form without crash...
>
> -- Pavel
>
> On 2/21/07, Jens Lincke <jens at impara.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my machine doing a:
>>
>> f1 :=  Form extent: 800 @ 600  * 4 depth:  32.
>> f2 :=  Form extent: 800 @ 600  * 4 depth:  32.
>> f3 :=  Form extent: 800 @ 600  * 4 depth:  32.
>> f4 :=  Form extent: 800 @ 600  * 4 depth:  32.
>>
>> results into an:
>>
>> "sweep failed to find exact end of memory" - vm crash
>>
>> both under the squeak 3.9-8 and 3.7-3 unix vms.
>>
>> my system:
>>
>> ubuntu i386  1GB RAM 1GB Swap
>>
>> Any ideas, why this happens?
>>
>>
>> - Jens -
>>
>>




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