We should check that.
Can you open a ticket?

Stef
On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:25 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.
> 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?
>
> I tried to do my best to write in English from what Marcelo told me  
> and from what I can understand from the changesets.
>
> Best,
>
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