Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I'll give the -memory option a try, using 1 GB. I'll report back.
Max On 10.10.2010, at 06:51, John M McIntosh wrote: > It's fairly clear: " the Mac VM has an option -memory" > no -mmap > > use it or set the info.plist setting of SqueakMaxHeapSize. > You can in theory set values up to 4GB on a 4.2.x VM or 5.7.x > Might make lights dim and core dump on a 5.8.x VM, please try... > Obviously you have to actually use the 4GB of memory. > > However I suspect asking for anything close to or over 5.8GB on a 4.2.x and > 5.8.x VM won't fly. > Should work with a 5.7.x VM > > > On 2010-10-09, at 8:14 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote: > >> On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Max Leske wrote: >> >>> 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? >> >> I don't have a Mac, but you can easily check it by starting an image with >> "-mmap 64m", then allocating a 64MB array in the image. If it fails, then >> the switch works, otherwise not. >> >> >> Levente >> >>> >>> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > -- > =========================================================================== > John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> Twitter: squeaker68882 > Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com > =========================================================================== > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
