<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto"><br><br>Hi Eliot,<br></div><div dir="auto"><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><div>Hi Timothy,<br></div><div><br></div><div> a few weeks ago debugging an issue raised by Andrei Chis I ran a test runner in the simulator and the out of memory test it included caused the simulator to grow its central byte array to 17Gb. When I saved the image it was 34Gb. The workflow threw up a policy error. The VM would not shrink memory unless it had done a GC but once it had 17 Gb of free space it wasn’t going to do a GC. So I updated the vm and fixed the policy error and now the vm will happily shrink back after growing yo many gigabytes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This is all just to point out that a match 3rd vm is a tad on the old side.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><br><br>Thx, I will upgrade the VM ASAP.<br><br><br><br></div><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><div><br></div><div>BTW, how much ram do you have on your system?<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><div>.free -h<br></div></div><div> total used free shared buff/cache available<br></div><div>Mem: 6.7G 6.0G 225M 1.0M 506M 358M<br></div><div dir="auto"><div>Swap: 0B 0B 0B<br></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div>The vm will happily use all of it and more unless you set an upper bound on the size of memory (command line and vm parameter)<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><div><div>./squeak6.0alpha/bin/squeak --headless --memory 3000 squeak6.0alpha/shared/Squeak6.0alpha-19802-64bit.image &<br></div><div><br></div><div>is the command I use. I am not sure what the '3000' refers to, I am assuming it is 3G.<br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks for your help.<br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>