[squeak-dev] Constantly growing Image file

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 16:24:25 UTC 2022


> On Dec 26, 2022, at 3:23 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 10:04 AM Jakob Reschke <jakres+squeak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Since there is a PointerExplorerWrapper in this trace I believe that a pointer explorer is already open on one of the objects, or that this tool does not exclude itself from its own pointer search...
>> 
>> If the latter is the case, it would be a Heisentool, where the attempt of using it changes that which it is supposed to observe. :-P
> 
> Which is why I don't use the pointer explorer when I'm trying to clean all instance of a class out.  Instead:
> 
>     TheClass allInstances anyOne chasePointers

TheClass someInstance ifNotNil: [:obj| obj chasePointers]

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