On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Andrew P. Black <black@cs.pdx.edu> wrote:

On 17 Aug 2011, at 14:24 , Igor Stasenko wrote:

> yes.. except one thing: since contexts are allocated on heap, it means
> more work for GC,
> then it explains that it degrading linearly.
>
> Andrew, can you play with GC parameters, like increase number of
> allocations between incremental GCs etc?

How do I do that?



Check method category "vm parameters" in SmalltalkImage.
Is there a gc monitor, that will show me how much time the gc is taking, or how many times the incremental gc is running?


Yes, open "System" -> "Vm statistics"
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