On 18 May 2011 17:08, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 18 May 2011, at 16:51, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 May 2011, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 18 May 2011, at 16:30, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 May 2011, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a possibility to have any sort of answer on this topic?
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks to me like this bug is critical given that it prevents us to 
>>>>> work with images larger than some 200M.
>>>>
>>>> IMHO it's a problem on the image side. Change the behavior of 
>>>> #lowSpaceWatcher to fix the problem.
>>>
>>> How would you do it? :)
>>
>> According to Igor's mail, the UI process is suspended by the low space 
>> watcher, which prevents you from seeing the cause of the problem. So, for 
>> example you could wake up the UI process if that was suspended by the VM 
>> and/or log some info about the situation. This won't save your image, but 
>> since it works on non-windows VMs, that's not a problem.
>
> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do that.
>
> Furthermore, it's not about one image. These images are produced 
> automatically several times per day, and people want to be able to download 
> them and play with the data inside.
>
> And again, having a 200M image cannot be so unusual. I tried in multiple 
> situations to simply generate a large enough image and it won't open.
>
>>> And if it is an image problem, why does it only appear on Windows?
>>
>> Are you using the same VMs (interpreter/cog, version number matches, etc)? 
>> If you didn't try so far, then open the image with the latest interpreter VM 
>> on windows, it has some extra checks for allocations which is not 
>> implemented in Cog yet.
>
> I tried with several versions of Cog including the latest ones (on both 
> platforms) and I got the same result. I did not try with an interpreter VM 
> because I only have Cog images around (based on Pharo 1.2) and they are not 
> compatible.
>

@Eliot, can you comment or recommend something concerning this issue?

> Cheers,
> Doru
>

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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