I don't know how familiar you are with irc channels , but that is pretty much standard behaviour. So no its definitely not a reason to close channel. I rather help people who keep trying to learn pharo than people who give up too easily to be frank with you. Quantity is not Quality ;)��

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:

On 21.06.2014, at 17:36, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

First off:
<rant>why do we have an IRC channel if nobody seems to be listening??</rant>

too small community for an irc channel. My experience with irc is that 90-99% of people logged in at least are idle. For its size #pharo is quite active actually. ��

Probably true. We should consider closing it. We��ve had people there asking questions before. Some of them didn��t get an answer at all (bad image for us) or were pointed to the mailing list which they probably would have tried anyway if the channel hadn��t existed...

sorry can't help you with your question :(

Thanks anyway :)

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:

First off:
<rant>why do we have an IRC channel if nobody seems to be listening??</rant>

Sorry about that. Here��s my original question as posted on IRC:

Hi guys.
I have a couple of SystemWindow instances sitting around in my image which can��t be garbage collected. They all once showed a debugger but that debugger seems to be only referenced by the window.
I��m kind of running in circles. Does anyone have an idea how to find the root pointers which prevent garbage collection of an object? Using PointerFinder manually isn��t helping much (I��m in a Pharo 1.1.1 image).

Cheers,
Max