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Hi all --<div><br></div><div> I just merged Chris' approach. Please feel free to further tweak #heapMemoryLimit to work on all supported platforms.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class='history_container' type='cite' style='border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;'>
<p style='color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;'>Am 01.06.2022 02:31:27 schrieb Chris Muller <asqueaker@gmail.com>:</p><div style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif'>
<div dir="ltr">If -memory only works on unix VM's, then I need to update that test I put in the Inbox to check for that, too. I didn't know that!<div><br></div><div> - Chris</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 5:25 PM David T. Lewis <<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This is a really good approach although I think it only works on<br>
unix VMs. Even so it would be better than the current state, and<br>
it seems better to have the test available on unix VMs than not to<br>
have it at all.<br>
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Dave<br>
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On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 04:32:52PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:<br>
> The test could be changed to run ONLY if the vm was started with a limiting<br>
> -memory argument. See the attached method, Smalltalk>>#imageMemoryLimit.<br>
> Let THAT be the way to enable the test, that the user started the image in<br>
> a way that doesn't allow it, even accidentally, to swallow up the whole<br>
> system.<br>
> <br>
> Best,<br>
> Chris<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:07 PM Lauren Pullen <<a href="mailto:drurowin@gmail.com" target="_blank">drurowin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Hi list,<br>
> ><br>
> > I can't remember if I already asked this, please ignore if it's a double.<br>
> ><br>
> > AllocationTest's testOutOfMemorySignalExtreme is too disruptive to the<br>
> > rest of the OS to run by default. It will absolutely fill my hard drive<br>
> > with pagefile if the OS doesn't trap and ask me to start terminating<br>
> > processes first. If the pagefile fills the hard drive many programs are<br>
> > simply incapable of not corrupting their persisted state... every time<br>
> > it happens I need to go through and delete preferences and cache<br>
> > folders. The test has never completed, and I lack a 1 TB hard drive or<br>
> > unused ones to RAID together.<br>
> ><br>
> > I feel it's appropriate to disable that test and require users<br>
> > explicitly allow it to run. Personally, I delete the method. Can this<br>
> > be disabled?<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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