Dynamic system memory use
Ned Konz
ned at bike-nomad.com
Thu Jan 31 07:47:20 UTC 2002
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 06:16 am, Derrick Coetzee wrote:
> I don't know a lot about this, so I might be misunderstanding the way it
> works, but it seems to me like Squeak takes a fixed size chunk of system
> memory on startup and then hands it to its own internal memory managers
> to do its own allocation scheme.
[snip]
> Is there a solution to this in Squeak or is this a design issue?
The latest versions of the Squeak VM can grab more memory if needed, so you
can specify a maximum and Squeak won't use it unless it needs to.
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Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email: ned at bike-nomad.com
homepage: http://bike-nomad.com
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