Which OS are you using?  On Windows I run into this often (apparently the
Windows VM is built with limitations to handle odd issues in Windows itself
- beyond this statement, I'm not clear what happens).  On other platforms,
so I've heard, you can run much larger images.

-Chris


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm no expert in crashing the VM so maybe it's me doing something stupid.
> I have a 157 MB semicolon delimited file from which I basically want to
> create 1.5 million objects.
> Around 1.37 million I get the attached crash dump. Memory is around 530M
> Everything works fine if I only read the second half of the file.
> I tried croquet.exe -memory: 1024 without success.
>
> I read the whole file into a String and before I sprinkled the method with
> debugging aids it looked like:
>
> initFrom: aString
>     "read the protocol file via feeding its lines into a state machine
> each performed method returns the state for the next line"
>     |status|
>     status := #initialHeaders:.
>     aString linesDo: [:line|
>         status := self perform: status with: line].
>
> Latest Cog VM, image updated to 12333.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Herbert
>
>
>
>
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