Thank you for the explanation! Take care, Rob
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Keith Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Rob Rothwell wrote: > > Sorry for bringing this up again, but nothing works so well for > > getting an image back down to size after installing additional > > packages (especially big ones, like Aida or Magma) like running LPF. > > The fixObsoleteReferences does nothing...any other ideas? Whatever > > it is is present in the pharo script as well, and does something in a > > way that doing a garbage collect after the end of the script > > immediately shrinks the image--in this case from 50Mb to 25Mb! > > > > Take care, > > > > Rob > LPF is running SmalltalkImage current cleanUpAll. > > We recently started a convention that all classes that can free up some > memory prior to saving an image implement #freeSomeSpace, or #cleanUp. > > One of the biggest offenders is Monticello, it caches quite a lot of > stuff when loading packages. There is a menu item for cleaning > Monticello caches manually. > > regards > > Keith > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners >
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