2009/8/21 Daniel P Zepeda <[email protected]>

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> On Aug 21, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>
> Hi folks: Sometimes, my Pharo images grows a lot. Size like 80MB or
> similar. Marcelo Cortez gave me a couple of changes (fileouts) that make my
> images go back to their original size or similar. For example, it was tasted
> in a 87 MB and after this changes and this stuff, it become in 24 MB. The
> same with another one from 65M to 35M.
>
> If you have a big Pharo image, save a copy and do this tests:
>
> 1) File in all the changes I attach.
>
>
> There is nothing attached.
>


Ups...sorry. I attach it here.



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>
> 2) Go to a workspace and evaluate:
>
> OBDPAbstract reinitAllCache.
> LocalSends  allInstances first initialize.
> EventManager  resetMap.
> Smalltalk garbageCollect.
>
> Did this make your image too much smaller?
>
> When I evaluate SystemNavigation default obsoleteBehavio size   I get a a
> number of 3 digits.
>
> Perhaps it is a matter with the OB. I guess it generates dependences while
> you are developing a class and it creates on the fly an obsolteClassXXX when
> there is something that doesn't exist.  Then they are processes and they are
> never garbage collected.
>
> When  SmalltalkImage tries to fix the obsoletes delegates to the literal
> frames of the compiled methods so that to search references to the
> obsoletes. But references were not gone because they weren't garbage
> collected. The same method finishes with error if the obsoletes > 0.
>
> Does anyone has a comment for this?
>
>
> Well, the only comment I have is that this procedure should go on the
> snippets page no the Pharo Project website. I know you are after a deeper
> fix, but others will have to provide that, as this is way over my head at
> this time.
>

I think the same as you.


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>
>
> I tried to do my best to write in English from what Marcelo told me and
> from what I can understand from the changesets.
>
>
> You did a good job, I understand the problem conceptually from your
> description. I just don't have any idea how to fix that.
>

Excellent and thanks for the report


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> Best,
>
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