[squeak-dev] Re: image maintenance & cleanup methods

>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:13:50 -0800
>From: John M McIntosh <[hidden email]>
>Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] ditching Monticello objects.
>To: Keith Hodges <[hidden email]>
>Cc: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
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>Ok, well I did
>
>I've been collecting lists of pruning methods so..
>
> ScrollBar initializeImagesCache.
> GradientFillStyle initPixelRampCache.
> NaturalLanguageFormTranslator classPool at: #CachedTranslations put:
>nil.
> NaturalLanguageTranslator resetCaches.
> PartsBin clearThumbnailCache.
> PaintBoxMorph classPool at: #ColorChart put: nil.
> PaintBoxMorph classPool at: #Prototype put: nil.
> ImageMorph classPool at: #DefaultForm put: (Form extent: 1@1 depth: 1).
> Utilities classPool at: #ScrapsBook put: nil.
> Project allInstancesDo: [ :each | each setThumbnail: nil ].
> ScriptingSystem stripGraphicsForExternalRelease.
> ProjectHistory currentHistory initialize.
> Utilities zapUpdateDownloader.
> Smalltalk forgetDoIts.
> Behavior flushObsoleteSubclasses.
> CommandHistory allInstancesDo: #initialize.
> ChangeSorter removeChangeSetsNamedSuchThat: [ :each | true ].
> ChangeSet resetCurrentToNewUnnamedChangeSet.
> MethodChangeRecord allInstancesDo: [ :x | x noteNewMethod: nil ].
> RequiredSelectors initialize.
> ProvidedSelectors initialize.
> LocalSends initialize.
> SendCaches initializeAllInstances.
> Utilities cleanseOtherworldlySteppers.
> Smalltalk organization removeEmptyCategories.
> Browser initialize.
> SMSqueakMap default purge.
> SystemBrowser removeObsolete.
> TheWorldMenu removeObsolete.
> AppRegistry removeObsolete.
> FileServices removeObsolete.
> MCFileBasedRepository flushAllCaches.
> MCDefinition clearInstances.
> Undeclared removeUnreferencedKeys.
> Smalltalk flushClassNameCache.
> 3 timesRepeat: [ Smalltalk garbageCollect. Symbol compactSymbolTable ].
> Set rehashAllSets.
> Smalltalk garbageCollect.
>
>
>
>I added these ones.
>
> ChangeSorter initializeChangeSetCategories.
> MCWorkingCopy inspect.
> MCRepositoryGroup inspect.
> MCCacheRepository inspect.
>
>and cleaned up the class instance variables & any class vars via the
>inspect.
>
>That removed all the MC packages and MC http repositories from the MC
>Browser
>
>gave me back 4 megabytes of image space.
>
>Well brute force, still 4 mb wonderful to get back this late in the
>project.
>
>
>On 11-Feb-09, at 6:18 PM, Keith Hodges wrote:
>
>> John M McIntosh wrote:
>>> I'm building an image for a limited memory hardware platform.
>>>
>>> At the point here where I want to *deploy* things and I can see that
>>> various parts of Monticello
>>> are consuming well over a megabyte of memory to retain MCVersionInfo
>>> instances, MCMethodDefinition(s), time stamps, uuids, etc etc
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if anyone has some code to strip all that out thus
>>> returning I suspect a couple of MB back for more constructive usage?
>> You may want to look into the cleanUp/freeSomeSpace conventions. MC1.5
>> has a few implemented. There are many more available from
>> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7244
>>
>> Keith
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