[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] out of memory - cog on windows

Thu Apr 21 20:35:58 UTC 2011

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor.girba at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Should I to understand that the only way to enable more memory is to
> recompile the VM? Does that mean that there is no way to pass this
> information as a parameter like we can on Mac?
>
>
As far as I know you can pass a parameter, but even so, it won't be able to
allocate more than 512MB.
I can compile the VM for you with this change in 5 minutes. But I am not
sure that such simple code would make it work. I think such limit is there
because of something. Otherwise, it sounds stupid imposing a limit just
because.

The problem is that I cannot recompile the VM because I have no access to a
> Windows machine. Is there one available that provides more memory?
>
>
I don't think so, but start cc'ing the VM mailing list. You'd probably
receive more help.

Cheers

Mariano

> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
> On 21 Apr 2011, at 22:09, Alain_Rastoul wrote:
>
> > Hi Tudor,
> >
> > There is a constant in sqWin32Alloc.h (platforms\win32\vm) :
> > #define MAX_VIRTUAL_MEMORY 512*1024*1024
> > you can change it to whatever you want and rebuild the vm,
> > for exzmple give all the available memory less 256 M .
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Regards
> > Alain
> >
> > "Tudor Girba" <tudor.girba at gmail.com> a écrit
> > dans le message de news: 03B9389F-C719-44D0-B106-2AC78B120F56 at gmail.com.
> ..
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have no specific startUp: methods in Moose. In any case, the issue
> with
> > opening the image does not seem to be related to startUp:.
> >
> > Is it really true that the Cog VM is limited to 512MB of memory?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Doru
> >
> >
> > On 21 Apr 2011, at 14:27, Luc Fabresse wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Doru,
> >>
> >> 2011/4/21 Tudor Girba
> >> <tudor.girba at gmail.com>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Apr 21, 2011, at 14:06, Mariano Martinez Peck
> >> <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Tudor Girba
> >>> <tudor.girba at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi again,
> >>>>
> >>>> I did not say what the problem was :). The problem was that when
> >>>> opening the image on Windows, he got a Space is low message and the
> >>>> image was not usable (see attachment).
> >>>
> >>> That's weird. Does moose have something on the startup list?
> something
> >>> that can be bothering there?
> >>
> >> Not that I know of. Is there a way to check this?
> >>
> >> Classes should be registered using Smalltlak addToStartUpList: aClass
> >> Then aClass class>>#startUp: is executed at startup.
> >> So implementors of #startUp: on Moose classes should give you the
> answer.
> >>
> >> #Luc
> >>
> >>
> >> Actually, using exactly the same process some days ago he produced an
> >> image of 190MB. This one works just fine on Windows. The only difference
> >> between the two is the size of the loaded data.
> >>
> >> It would be really bad news if the Windows vm would be so severely
> limited
> >> in terms of memory.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Doru
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Mac it worked just fine.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Doru
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 21 Apr 2011, at 12:52, Tudor Girba wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I received a question from someone running a 200MB image on Windows
> >>>>> using Cog 2361.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If I open the image on Mac, it works just fine. Unfortunately, I do
> >>>>> not have a Windows machine around, and I cannot test but I believe it
> >>>>> should be solvable by increasing the allocated memory.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mac, I would run it with: ./Croquet -memory 1500m
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can anyone help me with the right incantation for Windows?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>> Doru
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> www.tudorgirba.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "What we can governs what we wish."
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <Space is low.png>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> www.tudorgirba.com
> >>>>
> >>>> "Yesterday is a fact.
> >>>> Tomorrow is a possibility.
> >>>> Today is a challenge."
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Mariano
> >>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > www.tudorgirba.com
> >
> > "Beauty is where we see it."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
>
> "If you interrupt the barber while he is cutting your hair,
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>
>

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Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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