[squeak-dev] OSX squeak crash: maximal size of image?

Michal michal-list at auf.net
Sat Oct 2 22:54:39 UTC 2010


>> is there a hard limit on the size of the image? Is there a way for
>> me to get beyond that limit?

> Edit the Info.plist inside of the VM.
> SqueakMaxHeapSize is set to 512 MiB by default. 

thanks Bert! My image is now happily at 620MB and growing.

> I'd be interested in hearing how much bigger you can make this - the
> theoretical limit is 4 GiB (unless you switch to the experimental 64
> bit Squeak). I suspect it might work up to 2 GiB.

I will let you know when I hit the next wall (and I will try the 64bit
VM)

Michal



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