On 24 Mar 2015, at 16:13, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 Mar 2015, at 15:18, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
Hi,
There seems to be some kind of memory leak in recent Pharo 4.0 images. Image size (as saved on disk) seems to be growing very rapidly under normal use (development with Nautilus, Spotter, GTPlayground, GTInspector and Monticello, debugging). Numbers go from the initial 20Mb to 100s of Mb and they seem to increase constantly, over a period of days.
Are you saying that the static image size is growing? Dynamic growth could easily be explained by leaks in NativeBoost for instance. But static image size means that there are objects lying around that shouldnât (at least that should be easier to debug).
Yes, it is the latter. We have seen it in a couple of places, but we can't seem to find the culprit. Many people do not keep images very long, but it seems to be visible in one to two days, which is obviously too fast.
One way to look at memory use is with
SpaceTally printSpaceAnalysis
but that takes a while.
Please help us find and fix this issue.
Thanks,
Sven