[squeak-dev] Releasing objects from memory

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 13:48:23 UTC 2022


Hi,

What is holding on to the HWEntity?

You can test these two doIts:

PointerFinder on: ( HWEntity allSubInstances first)

( HWEntity allSubInstances first) explorePointers

Best,
Karl



On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 11:42 AM Christopher Becker <cb627hf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all!
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> I have an Image file that is now about 345 MB in size but should be closer
> to 60 MB. The Image is growing in size day by day. When I do the following
> I get a seemingly never-ending list of objects in the Transcript:
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> HWEntity allSubInstances do: [ :hwe | Transcript show: hwe; cr. ].
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> I tried doing the following to release the objects from memory but the
> above still displays the objects:
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> HWEntity allSubInstances do: [ :hwe | hwe release. ].
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> Is there anything else I can do to free up memory?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Chris Becker
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