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

[Norm Green]

What Richard said.  VW 8.3 is not yet supported by GBS.  Try with VW 
8.2.1 and GBS 8.3.

On 1/29/2019 5:47 PM, Richard Sargent via GemStone-Smalltalk wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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