Growing image

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> [mailto:[hidden email]] On
> Behalf Of Norbert Hartl
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:03 PM
> To: Squeak Newbies List
> Subject: [Newbies] Growing image
>
> Hi,
>
> at the moment I'm developing an application with seaside,
> magritte and magma. If I start with a fresh image I only need
> a few days for the image to exceed 100MB in total size.
>
> Is there a way do display the total amount of objects being
> in the image? I think only a vast amount of objects could
> make the image grow that much. A list of object grouped by
> class and sorted by amount would be very helpful.
>
> Is there any such tool?
>
> regards,
>
> Norbert

> Hi,
>
> at the moment I'm developing an application with
> seaside, magritte and magma. If I start with a fresh
> image I only need a few days for the image to exceed
> 100MB in total size.
>
> Is there a way do display the total amount of objects
> being in the image? I think only a vast amount of
> objects could make the image grow that much. A list
> of object grouped by class and sorted by amount would
> be very helpful.
>
> Is there any such tool?
>
> regards,
>
> Norbert

> Hi,
>
> at the moment I'm developing an application with
> seaside, magritte and magma. If I start with a fresh
> image I only need a few days for the image to exceed
> 100MB in total size.
>
> Is there a way do display the total amount of objects
> being in the image? I think only a vast amount of
> objects could make the image grow that much. A list
> of object grouped by class and sorted by amount would
> be very helpful.
>
> Is there any such tool?

> Hi Norbert,
>
> the tool is Smalltalk, just inspect
>
> (((Smalltalk allClasses collect: [:each | each name -> each instanceCount  
> ])
> reject: [:each | each value = 0])
> asSortedCollection: [:a :b | b value < a value]) asArray
>
> This gives # of objects per class, in a nice GUI :-)
>

> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 01:52 +0100, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> Hi Norbert,
>>
>> the tool is Smalltalk, just inspect
>>
>> (((Smalltalk allClasses collect: [:each | each name -> each  
>> instanceCount
>> ])
>> reject: [:each | each value = 0])
>> asSortedCollection: [:a :b | b value < a value]) asArray
>>
>> This gives # of objects per class, in a nice GUI :-)
>>
> Thanks, this is quite good. I have now a statistic like:
>
> 246565 WeakArray
> 241929 WeakKeyAssociation
> 179848 ByteString
> 171165 Array
> 159003 Association
> 130254 WeakValueAssociation
>
> What is the best way to determine where this instances are
> referenced. Do I have to use PointerFinder or Smalltalk
> browseAllObjectReferencesTo: or is there better way?
>
> thanks for your help, this goes also to Ramon and David.
> You are very helpful, guys.
>
> Norbert