Image growth

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Wed Jun 26 23:03:26 UTC 2002


se99011 at 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.

There were some issues with Whisker 0.92 creating a lot of dependents, which I believe weren't getting GC'd.  (Hmm, although maybe this was only an issue with 3.2gamma.)

See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/45000 and responses for related discussion.

In any case, I'll be looking at this issue before I release Whisker 0.93, after Squeak 3.2 is finalized.

- Doug Way
  Detroit, MI



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