Yes, this has to be solved on the VM level and will be read when it is ready. The release should bot be hold up due to this, therefore I removed the milestone.
On 16 Feb 2017, at 15:50, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
@Marcus, I was reviewing this issue before I noticed you flipped the milestone from Pharo 6.0 to Later.
But is it solved already? In a fresh image 47.7MB in size I did the following a bunch of times to grow the image file to 400MB o ifNil: [o := OrderedCollection new]. 100 timesRepeat: [ o add: (Array new: 100000) ]. Smalltalk saveSession
then I did this o := nil. Smalltalk saveSession.
and the image file returned to 47.7MB.
Version info... Linux Debian 8 Jessie 32-bit Latest update: #60391 CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.1855 uuid: d8e4a3c2-a3bf-4adc-b224-8012903a1ef4 May 4 2016 StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.1855 uuid: d8e4a3c2-a3bf-4adc-b224-8012903a1ef4 May 4 2016 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git Commit: b8ec25a570d7539653e1d793e97609adb509aaed Date: 2016-05-04 11:14:22 +0200 By: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> Jenkins build #589
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/17240/Spur-When-saving-an-image-it-never-s...
cheers -ben