flushAllCaches took me down to 44MB.  I did not know about that.

Thanks!
  Chris

--- Cees De Groot <cdegroot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> It's a known feature/problem/bug/wart of MC that it eats up a lot of
> space. Usually, doing "MCFileBasedRepository flushAllCaches; Smalltalk
> garbageCollect" takes care of that.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cees
> 
> On 5/3/05, Chris Muller <chris at funkyobjects.org> wrote:
> > I've been experiencing gradual image-growth as I develop code, and now my
> > 100-meg image has become unwieldly.  SpaceTally reports 59MB used on String
> > instances!
> 
>