[GemStone-Smalltalk] Opening class browser in GS64/VW 8.3 causes image to exhaust all memory and hang

[Richard Sargent]

Trying this again, but including the mailing list this time.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 5:32 PM Gary Morrison via GemStone-Smalltalk <
gemstone-smalltalk at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm having a problem using the Community Edition of VW 8.3 when connected
> to Community Edition of GS64 version 3.4.3 on Linux.
>

https://gemtalksystems.com/products/gbs-vw/ says the support configurations
for GBS 8.3 are  *Client Smalltalk: VisualWorks 8.2.1, 8.1.1, and 7.10.1.*
It seems likely that you are getting bitten by something in VW 8.3 which
that version of GBS doesn't support.

[Ordinarily, the system browser should open in about a second especially
when working with only the classes distributed in the product.]



> After I log using an RPC session I am able to do the following:
> - commit, abort, begin
> - browse the following: security policies, symbol lists, users,
> connectors, breakpoints, implementors of a method.  As soon as I try to
> open the System Browser, the image quickly runs out of memory and hangs.
>
> I tried adjusting some settings but nothing appears to help.
>
> If is frustrating because there are no error messages.  I suspect there is
> some internal error with GBS but it does not indicate a problem as it
> gobbles up 500 MB of memory.
>
> Please let me know if there is a way to debug what GBS is doing by
> allocating over 500 MB of memory just to show the class names which appear
> in the class browser
> of the base system.  No application classes have been loaded yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
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