[Q] Reduce image size

radoslav hodnicak rh at 4096.sk
Tue Jun 28 09:33:42 UTC 2005



On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Norberto Manzanos wrote:

> Sorry. One minute after I had written the former mail, I found the solution.
>
> Smalltalk condenceChanges.
>
> Anyway, I'm planning to use the Squeak image as a database. I think I will
> have problems with this changes size limit.
> Should I change this variable?

No. What you see is size limit for the <image name>.changes file, which 
stores sources for code you write, load, file-in etc. It doesn't store 
smalltalk objects.

The image itself (which you want to use as db) can grow much larger, 
I don't know what the limit is, 1GB should be possible.



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