2017-01-31 13:42 GMT+01:00 stepharong <stephar...@free.fr>:

> Thanks John
>
> For the record we are investigating a leak on points.
> In pharo 60 we discovered that in certain images I could have 300 000 or
> more points. :)
> Now marcus was analysing the problems with pavel and we had the impression
> that
> some of the points may have been tenured too fast.
>
> Pavel shows that every 5 ms we get a new point.
>

The problem in fact is not in this increasing amount of Point instances
because they are garbage collected after about 2 minutes. The problem is in
the FreeTypeCache.

-- Pavel


>
> Stef
>
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 05:00:47 +0100, John Brant <br...@refactoryworkers.com>
> wrote:
>
> I don’t know if there is an existing object reference crawler, but I
>> ported mine from VW. It finds the shortest paths so it is good for finding
>> the reference that is causing the memory leak.
>> MCHttpRepository
>>         location: 'http://www.smalltalkhub.com/m
>> c/JohnBrant/ReferenceFinder/main'
>>         user: ''
>>         password: ‘’
>> Once loaded, you can evaluate something like "ReferenceFinder
>> findPathToInstanceOf: MyClass”.  That will return a reference path or nil
>> if no path exists from the Smalltalk global to an instance of MyClass. If
>> you want to find a path to a particular instance, you can use
>> “ReferenceFinder findPathTo: myInst”.
>>
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