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

[Gary Morrison]

Richard,
Thank you.  I'll have go back and ask Cincom if they can provide version
8.2.1 as a Community Edition.
Thanks,
Gary

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 8:47 PM Richard Sargent <
richard.sargent at gemtalksystems.com> 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> 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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