[Vm-dev] Re: VM patches for oop comparison and usqInt declarations

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:07:35PM -0700, John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
> Ok, I build a new VM using these changes then poked about  and  
> wondered about the following compares as below.
> 
> Also did some tests, by altering mmap I ran the VM at the 3GB  
> boundary, that seemed to work ok.
> 
> I then attempted to run it at the 1.5 GB boundary using a memory size of
> 
> 641,732,608  at the 1.5GB boundary
> 
> The basic image (a 3.5 image) started at 20MB. I then allocated 450  
> mb of memory and did macro-benchmarks
> 
> | suck |
> suck := OrderedCollection new.
> 	suck add: (ByteArray new: 1024*1024*450).
> 100 timesRepeat: [
> 	Smalltalk macroBenchmarks.
> 	suck add: (ByteArray new: 1024*1024*1).
> 	Transcript show: Smalltalk garbageCollectMost;cr.
> 	Transcript show: Smalltalk garbageCollect;cr].
> 
> 
> However when young space approached, when over, inbetween, whatever  
> the 2GB boundary the VM core dumped.

Hi John,

Thanks for the feedback. It's good that you've got a fairly repeatable
failure scenario. When I did those changes, I was working on a 64 bit
machine, and the Squeak heap gets allocated at e.g. 0x2b39e0c5a000, so
I would not have been seeing the 2GB boundary on that machine. I guess
I should go back to a 32 bit box and reproduce the problem there.

I might not get a chance to look at this further for a couple of weeks
though. Right now my pet project is to see if I can get Areithfa Ffenestri
working on unix.

Dave