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From: dr1b@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Dionysis Rigopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Running out of memory with PPS 2.5
Message-ID: <12659@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 23:48:01 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I just run into this problem and the tech support at ParcPlace opens
again on Monday, so I thought I may get some help from the net...
(May be after all some of the ParcPlace guys read this bboard during the
weekends :-) )
   I am trying to transfer the code I developed in version 2.3 to Objectworks
2.5 and run out of space (on a Mac ci with 8 MB of memory, where memory
should not be a problem).
   I run Objectworks under multifinder, so I played with different values
of required memory, and was surprised by the results:
With 4000 K of required memory, after garbage collecting I have 792036 free
bytes. With 6971 K of memory, I only get 1421900 free bytes. Where do the
remaining bytes of the addional memory go? Actually, I had the exact same
memory problem with a 386 some months ago, and blamed the machine.
   The code I try to file in is about 240 K, but I very very early run out of
space (after filing in about 1/15 of it - less than 20 methods!!)
   Any suggestions, opinions, statements of sympathy, are badly needed...
      Thanks,
     Dionysis
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Dionysis R. Rigopoulos

dr1b@cive.ri.cmu.edu