Hey Bill No, I hadn't thought about that. But I guess It wouldn't help me much anyway since what effectively eats memory is the data I store in the image; I reuse my objects as much as possible. Basically, I'm storing thousands of very short strings in ByteArrays (files in a memory filesystem, using Colin Putney's Filesystem framework). Writing the same data to disk gives me around 500 MB because of the massive overhead per file (there's around 50 bytes per file and each file allocates 4 KB). I guess it would be less in the image but let's just say I'll need around 1 GB probably. Max On 09.10.2010, at 23:14, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
Max,
You are probably way ahead of this (and keep pushing the envelope<g>), but you do know about #release, right? A couple of weeks ago I ran some fairly intense calculations that resulted in low space conditions. Sending #release to the participants (and implementing it correctly) fixed it.
One thing that IMHO has never worked well, or at least not as well as advertised, in Dolphin is relying on its finalization "water mark" to trigger cleanup of finalizable objects on need. Most notably, I found it necessary to explicitly clean up ODBC statements to avoid errors/crashes.
How much memory do you need? May I ask for what? 32 or 64 bit?
Bill
________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Max Leske [maxleske@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 12:01 PM To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: [Pharo-project] Getting my head around low space
Hi
I'm having trouble with low space warnings in Pharo. Is there a source on how much memory the image can get from the OS? Is there maybe a way to up that limit? I am loading a lot of data into the image and the limit at the moment seems to be around 500 MB.
Thanks for any ideas.
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