[squeak-dev] Re: Mac VM hanging

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Tue Jun 28 16:14:58 UTC 2011


Bert,

I tried just these and it sill hangs the VM when running my stuff inside
MessageTally. It's interesting that sometimes Activity Monitor shows squeak
as "Not Responding" and sometimes it doesn't, although squeak has stopped
doing useful work in either case.

Cheers,
Bob

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> 
> I've been using this for a specific application:
> 
> 	vmParameterAt: 5 put: 16000;  "do an incremental GC after this many
> allocations"
> 	vmParameterAt: 6 put: 32000;  "tenure when more than this many objects
> survive the GC"
> 	vmParameterAt: 24 put: 16*1024*1024;  "when growing object memory,
> allocate this much extra space"
> 	vmParameterAt: 25 put: 8*1024*1024.  "when more than this much is free,
> shrink object memory"
> 
> There are two main differences: the incremental GC runs more often, and I
> did not enable the bias-to-grow.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 

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