I'm actually working on a mac, so that shouldn't be the problem. So your proposition to use -mmap would be unix specific? Is the option available on mac?
Thanks, Max On 09.10.2010, at 21:34, Levente Uzonyi wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > >> The unix VM and apparently also the Mac VM has an option -memory that allows >> you to set a heap size: >> >> [adrian:/Applications/Squeak 4.2.3beta1U.app/Contents/MacOS] ./Squeak\ VM\ >> Opt -help >> Usage: ./Squeak VM Opt [<option>...] [<imageName> [<argument>...]] >> ./Squeak VM Opt [<option>...] -- [<argument>...] >> >> Common <option>s: >> -help print this help message, then exit >> -memory <size>[mk] use fixed heap size (added to image size) >> -pathenc <enc> set encoding for pathnames (default: macintosh) >> -headless run in headless (no window) mode (default: false) >> >> Notes: >> <imageName> defaults to `Squeak.image'. >> If `-memory' is not specified then the heap will grow dynamically. >> <argument>s are ignored, but are processed by the Squeak image. >> The first <argument> normally names a Squeak `script' to execute. >> Precede <arguments> by `--' to use default image. > > This is ok for Mac, but the unix VM takes different arguments. > > > Levente > >> >> >> HTH, >> Adrian >> >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 18:01 , Max Leske wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm having trouble with low space warnings in Pharo. Is there a source on >>> how much memory the image can get from the OS? Is there maybe a way to up >>> that limit? I am loading a lot of data into the image and the limit at the >>> moment seems to be around 500 MB. >>> >>> Thanks for any ideas. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Max >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
