On 02.10.2010, at 12:06, Michal wrote:

> 
> My image has grown to 480MB and needs to grow still at least to the
> double of that (using squeak for research on language, involving huge
> language samples). I am now starting to get low-space notifiers, and
> squeak crashing into thin air.
> 
> I am on OSX with 4G RAM, squakVM 4.2.4b1, squeak 4.2b -- is there a
> hard limit on the size of the image? Is there a way for me to get
> beyond that limit?
> 

Edit the Info.plist inside of the VM.

SqueakMaxHeapSize is set to 512 MiB by default. 

I'd be interested in hearing how much bigger you can make this - the theoretical limit is 4 GiB (unless you switch to the experimental 64 bit Squeak). I suspect it might work up to 2 GiB.

- Bert -