and of course you are both correct , I have a circular reference, basically an object A referencing object B which references object A. No wonder why is not gc. Thanks for helping me out spotting this.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:56 PM Ferlicot D. Cyril <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 30/11/2015 11:40, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit : > > I am wondering when an instance of a class is garbage collected and > > deleted from the system. > > > > is there a way to manually deleted it ? > > If there is no Object that reference your object you can force a Garbage > collect with "Smalltalk garbageCollect". If your object is still here > you can try to see what point to it with "(X allInstances collectAsSet: > #pointersTo) inspect". > > When the reference is spotted you can try to remove it then garbage > collect again. > > -- > Cyril Ferlicot > > http://www.synectique.eu > > 165 Avenue Bretagne > Lille 59000 France > >
