[Crash (Un)Reproducibility] [Was: Re: [ANN] 7061 = Squeak 3.9 final]

Diego Gomez Deck DiegoGomezDeck at consultar.com
Tue Sep 26 13:59:14 UTC 2006


Hi,

> AFAIK it's not related to the Squeak binary at all but just depends  
> on the system. The problem started to pop up only recently (a year or  
> maybe two ago). Maybe it's kernel 2.6 related or something else that  
> changed in Linux recently - or simply that people have more than 2 GB  
> virtual memory nowadays.
> 
> The problem always occurs when Squeak is loaded partially around the  
> 2 GB limit. The fix for the problem at hand would be a code audit in  
> the FloatArray plugin, converting ints to unsigned where necessary.


I'm being working around this problem since months with the parrmeter:


 -mmap 512M 


Cheers,

-- Diego





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