[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] out of memory - cog on windows

[Igor Stasenko]

On 18 May 2011 17:08, Tudor Girba <tudor.girba at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On 18 May 2011, at 16:51, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
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>> On Wed, 18 May 2011, Tudor Girba wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> On 18 May 2011, at 16:30, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, 18 May 2011, Tudor Girba wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
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>>>>> Is there a possibility to have any sort of answer on this topic?
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>>>>> It looks to me like this bug is critical given that it prevents us to work with images larger than some 200M.
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>>>> IMHO it's a problem on the image side. Change the behavior of #lowSpaceWatcher to fix the problem.
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>>> How would you do it? :)
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>> According to Igor's mail, the UI process is suspended by the low space watcher, which prevents you from seeing the cause of the problem. So, for example you could wake up the UI process if that was suspended by the VM and/or log some info about the situation. This won't save your image, but since it works on non-windows VMs, that's not a problem.
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> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do that.
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> Furthermore, it's not about one image. These images are produced automatically several times per day, and people want to be able to download them and play with the data inside.
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> And again, having a 200M image cannot be so unusual. I tried in multiple situations to simply generate a large enough image and it won't open.
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>>> And if it is an image problem, why does it only appear on Windows?
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>> Are you using the same VMs (interpreter/cog, version number matches, etc)? If you didn't try so far, then open the image with the latest interpreter VM on windows, it has some extra checks for allocations which is not implemented in Cog yet.
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> I tried with several versions of Cog including the latest ones (on both platforms) and I got the same result. I did not try with an interpreter VM because I only have Cog images around (based on Pharo 1.2) and they are not compatible.
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@Eliot, can you comment or recommend something concerning this issue?

> Cheers,
> Doru
>

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