Maybe due to some Annoucement being picked up by Nautilus?

Phil



On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Johan Brichau <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that when even a single Nautilus system browser is open and you
> do a load (using Metacello), there is a huge amount of objects that get
> created and persisted in the image.
> This even leads to the point that the image crashes when I try to load our
> code using a ConfigurationOf. After some time, the Pharo process is stuck
> at 100%, image size is over 500MB and the entire image becomes
> unresponsive, finally crashing after an hour or so.
>
> I have not yet found which objects or why, but I just wrestled with this
> all day to find out what was going on. I first thought that Metacello was
> in an infinite loop but after noticing that the image was so large (500MB)
> and that it got reduced to 20% of its size after closing the browser
> window, I can say that Nautilus is gathering garbage. It is definitely not
> Metacello because I can trigger the same problem doing a load via
> Monticello only.
>
> When I load the ConfigurationOf without a single browser open, it loads 5x
> faster and the image size stays reasonable.
>
> Is this a known issue? Any thoughts on what may be causing this?
>
> regards!
> Johan
>

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