Out of space + other flakiness
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Sun Jul 1 21:08:11 UTC 2001
>Bob Arning <arning at charm.net> wrote:
>> The Windows VM can tap into the OS and grab more memory for the
>>Smalltalk heap, so it considers all of OS memory available. The
>>other VM's use a preallocated size, so free space can mean very
>>different things.
>>
><much helpful info deleted>
>
>I think the Mac carbon VM while running on OSX
>also can grap extra memory. Least I hope it can, otherwise
>what IS it doing with 1 gig :-)
>
> 364 Squeak 3.0 42.6% 6:15.70 5 87 87 15.1M 4.52M 17.8M
>1.01G
>
>cheers
>
>bruce
Yes it will grab the extra memory. It first allocates 1GB then
reallocates back to the image size plus X MB. After a full GC if
insufficent memory is available then it will grow. However once you
exceed the amount of real memory on the machine things become very
very slow...
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