David T. Lewis wrote: > > > > You are probably just growing your image to the point where the operating > system starts swapping. The image will appear to be unresponsive, but if > you interrupt it with <alt>period, it will eventually wake up and return > control to you. >
David, my image doesn't respond to <alt>period, although it is still using processor. It didn't sort itself out when left overnight. David T. Lewis wrote: > > The Unix VM automatically allocates memory from the operating system > as the Squeak object memory grows. This has the nice property of making > the image just as big as it needs to be without you worrying about it, > but it also means that if you write code that allocates far more memory > that is physically available, the operating system is going to start > thrashing to the point where Squeak becomes unusable. It will not really > be frozen though; if you are patient enough you can still save the image, > install more memory on your computer, and restart it ;-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gave so good tips on how to control VM memory > allocation for the Unix VM. > > Yes, using John's tips I can handle much larger data sets; I posted the results to his post. David T. Lewis wrote: > > I have also found that large images that I make on a Linux box > may refuse to load on Windows, with the Windows VM apparently > unable to allocate enough memory (even though plenty of memory > is available). I'm afraid that I never bothered to figure out > why (possibly error or ignorance on my part) but I mention it > so you won't be surprised if you try to show off your large > data sets on someone else's Windows laptop. > > Dave > > Interesting, I might try this too to see what happens. Thanks for your reply, Stan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linux-locks-up-when-handling-large-data-sets-tp17027341p17039414.html Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners