>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...

I should point out the carbon VM will also do this under OS-9. Except 
it's limited to the application size. So you can in fact set your 
application size to say 500MB, then squeak will only use say 20MB and 
grow upto 500MB. This might work ok in a situation where you expect 
some VM paging to occur.


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