May be we have two problems then :( Because we have problem without a large image.
Stef > On 11 Nov 2019, at 14:44, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > For the GC problem from > https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/391, there is no > threading involved. Just invoking full GC in a large image. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > >> On Nov 11, 2019, at 1:47 PM, ducasse <steph...@netcourrier.com> wrote: >> >> Hi doru >> >> >> Can you tell us more? How many threads are running? how many times did you >> save the image? >> Pablo is investigating a bug related to the GC that happens when we have >> many threads and saved the image >> multiple times. He was on it since a couple of days. >> >> Now Pablo is attending Smalltalks and will be on vacation until end of the >> month. >> Guille is on father leave and coming back to work one day a week. >> >> So we are concerned about this problem but we cannot really allocate people >> on it before beginning of december. >> >> S. >> >>> On 11 Nov 2019, at 12:57, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> During our work we encountered two issues we think should be considered >>> critical. >>> >>> The first is that the garbage collector is unreliable on larger images: >>> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/391 >>> We stumble on this when we manipulate larger pieces of data quite >>> consistently in plain Pharo (7 or 8). We lack the knowledge of how to >>> approach it, but we would happily pair and try to reproduce it with someone. >>> >>> The second one is that the sources contain wrong pointers, and this makes >>> it hard to work with TFFI: >>> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/4967 >>> This is already marked as important. We spent quite some time investigating >>> this, especially in the context of TFFI, and we would be happy to pair to >>> work through it. >>> >>> Would anyone be available for a collaboration in the following days? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Doru >>> >>> >>> -- >>> feenk.com >>> >>> "Not knowing how to do something is not an argument for how it cannot be >>> done." >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- > feenk.com > > "Value is always contextual." > > > > > > >
