Hi!

se99011@fhs-hagenberg.ac.at wrote:

Hi there,

I work on a 3.0 image with all fixes. I do some "trivial" development work (a banking system), working on about a dozen classes, using the Whisker browser, a workspace and a selector browser.

After a week of work or so my image has grown in size _considerably_. Starting from the original 10 MB I'm now at 23 MB. Am I doing something wrong? I tried to garbageCollect a few times, but this only frees a few KB.

Hmmm, sounds strange. Are you playing around with globals? Have you tried looking at:

MyClass allInstances size

...for your classes? Perhaps you have many more instances hanging around than you know. Oh, yes - try copying all your text in the workspace over to a new fresh workspace and close the old one. Workspaces are "friendly" in that you don't need to declare local variables, it creates it's own bindings instead so it may be holding onto old instances too.

If you find more instances thatn you like this is a good one too:

PointerFinder on: myLittleInstance

...to find why an instance is hanging around (it's chain of owners up to the globals in Smalltalk)

regards, Göran