[squeak-dev] 30Mb image growth from loading VMMaker?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Mar 26 11:48:35 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:44:18PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> 
> > I've just noticed that the latest-from-jenkins image that I added VMMaker
> > to this morning is 30Mb bigger than when it started. That seems a little
> > excessive. There certainly isn't 30Mb worth of code involved.
> >
> > SpaceTally says there is 29Mb of ByteStrings in the image, which seems
> > rather a lot. In fact, I'll just attach the space report - it really is a
> > bit alarming
> >
> 
> I think you'll trace it back to Monticello state.  Try flushing caches and
> see what happens.
> 

See senders of #flushAllCaches. Mainly it's this one:

  MCFileBasedRepository flushAllCaches.
  Smalltalk garbageCollect.

Dave



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