SmalltalkImage current vmParameterAt: 5 put: 40000

HTH,
Adrian

On Jun 5, 2008, at 15:23 , Jimmie Houchin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having problems parsing and reading some csv data files which are
> large. 25-50mb each. Each containing about 300,000 rows.
> In the end I will 10s of millions of objects from these files.
>
> I am using the latest squeak-dev image. My import program starts of
> fine, but uses almost 100% of a cpu. The image is consuming more  
> memory
> as it goes, but I have only seen it get to 128mb or so.
>
> So in an effort to get my data imported so that I can study it, and  
> not
> to have to use Python to do so. I started searching the squeak  
> archives,
> because I thought I remember some magic settings which helped memory
> management, garbageCollection or something.
>
> I found the 100 million objects thread and I copied Andreas code  
> that he
> uses for QF into a method to initialize the settings.
>
> Which has a lot of messages like:
> Smalltalk vmParameterAt: 5 put: 40000. "allocations between GCs
> (default: 4000)"
>
> But when I run the method I get this error.
>
> SystemDictionary(Object)>> doesNotUnderstand: #vmParameterAt:put:
>
> I opened up a couple of other clean images. Same problem.
>
> Any help understanding why that isn't working would be greatly
> appreciated.  And how I can get it working. :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jimmie
>