A noob and a bloated image

Hello all,

I noted that my Pharo image was almost 50 MB in size, which struck me
as excessive, and recalling reading something about cleaning out
orphaned sessions or something, I located a relevant FAQ with the needed
magic words:

     WARegistry clearAllHandlers.
     Smalltalk garbageCollect.

That dropped the image to 28MB, which I still suspect is large, but
that is my problem to sort out.

My point is that while "How do I purge all existing sessions that might
be open.?" is a perfectly reasonable question, it might help future
noobs to tie it to concepts such as image size, bloat, garbage
collection, etc. to aid with searches on the problem of a growing
image.

Bill



Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
University of Florida
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2008/10/1, Bill Schwab <[hidden email]>:
There is a chance that a morphic GUI for such things will make it into
2.9. Contact Michael Davies if you want to help.

Cheers
Philippe
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There may be other stuff lingering around than Seaside sessions, e.g.,  
the MC cache.
Or, are you using Polymorph? (Sorry, this may get a bit off topic for  
the Seaside list.)

Could you produce a space analysis and post it?
SpaceTally new systemWideSpaceTally

Cheers,
Adrian

On Oct 1, 2008, at 06:55 , Philippe Marschall wrote:

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Adrian,

I will run the space analysis.  I _think_ I even have a copy of the
image in its very bloated state, for comparison.

The image is an earlier Pharo image with a similarly aged Pinesoft's UI
Enhancements (of course, essentially a old version of Polymorph).  I
have no idea how big the image should be but, even 28MB seems large.

More to come.  Thanks!

Bill





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There may be other stuff lingering around than Seaside sessions, e.g.,  
the MC cache.
Or, are you using Polymorph? (Sorry, this may get a bit off topic for  
the Seaside list.)

Could you produce a space analysis and post it?
SpaceTally new systemWideSpaceTally

Cheers,
Adrian



Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Department of Anesthesiology
PO Box 100254
Gainesville, FL 32610-0254

Email: [hidden email]
Tel: (352) 273-6785
FAX: (352) 392-7029

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Adrian Lienhard wrote: MC1.5 Working Copy Browser has a menu item which gives you an explorer
showing each package and an estimate of its memory use. This can be used
to find the memory bloating culprits

Keith
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>  I have no idea how big the image should be but, even 28MB seems large.
>
> Bill

Compared to what?  28 meg isn't large at all for a fully loaded development
image.

Ramon Leon
http://onsmalltalk.com

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Bill Schwab wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I noted that my Pharo image was almost 50 MB in size, which struck me
> as excessive, and recalling reading something about cleaning out
> orphaned sessions or something, I located a relevant FAQ with the needed

Also - make sure you flush cache in the Monticello browser (in the
menu)- MC can really eat memory!

regards, Göran

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