Re: [Newbies] Linux locks up when handling large data sets

2008-05-03 Thread squeak414
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Stan! Have you tried using the -mmap option when starting Squeak? I notice that according to the squeakvm man page: squeak uses a dynamic heap by default with the maximum size set to 75% of the available virtual memory or 1 gigabyte, whichever is

Re: [Newbies] Linux locks up when handling large data sets

2008-05-03 Thread stan shepherd
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 altperiod, it will eventually wake up and return control to you. David, my image doesn't

Re: [Newbies] Linux locks up when handling large data sets

2008-05-03 Thread johnps11
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Stan! snipped large post Hi John, not confusing- an excellent response, thanks. With the memory option it also cruises on under Linux, until it freezes at 70 million objects. While it's still loading vmstat shows: procs ---memory--

[Newbies] Linux locks up when handling large data sets

2008-05-02 Thread squeak414
Hi, I've been testing Squeak's ability to handle large amounts of data. This snippet: testArrayFilling | startTime endTime iArray jArray kArray | iArray := Array ofSize: 100. 1 to: 100 do: [:i | jArray := Array

Re: [Newbies] Linux locks up when handling large data sets

2008-05-02 Thread johnps11
Hi Stan! Have you tried using the -mmap option when starting Squeak? I notice that according to the squeakvm man page: squeak uses a dynamic heap by default with the maximum size set to 75% of the available virtual memory or 1 gigabyte, whichever is smaller. Perhaps Windows doesn't have