[Vm-dev] Spur corrupts large images when saving

[stephane ducasse]

Yes I got the same last week.
I loaded SciSmalltalk and just program one hour and my image went to 1.4 Gb
I could not load it. 

Stef 

> On 07 Mar 2016, at 22:32, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymchuk at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear vm developers,
> 
> I’ve encountered multiple times an issue when my images cannot be opened after saving (only on spur). I think that this happens when image is large, and the following script results in a corrupt image almost 100%:
> 
> 
> curl get.pharo.org/50+vm <http://get.pharo.org/50+vm> | bash
> 
> ./pharo Pharo.image --no-default-preferences eval --save \
>   "Smalltalk globals at: #ReallyBigArray put: (ByteArray new: 1024*1024*1000). 'Done'"
> 
> ./pharo Pharo.image printVersion
> 
> 
> The last line is there just to make image do something and for me it fails all the times. I hope that this can help to troubleshoot the issue with the vm.
> 
> Also here are my system & hardware specs:
> 
> System Version:	OS X 10.11.3 (15D21)
> Model Identifier:	MacBookPro11,5
> Processor Name:	Intel Core i7
> Processor Speed:	2.8 GHz
> Total Number of Cores:	4
> Memory:	16 GB
> 
> Cheers!
> Uko

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