Spur has a known poor compaction algorithm that I understand from past vm-dev posts is near the top of the list for next action.
For the moment you might try Spur32BitPreen... * http://forum.world.st/unused-method-removal-vs-Spur-compaction-td4916008.html * http://forum.world.st/Fwd-Vm-dev-unused-method-removal-vs-Spur-compaction-td4916093.html * http://forum.world.st/VM-Maker-Cog-eem-328-mcz-td4911122.html cheers -ben On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Peter Uhnak <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I know that I can cleanup the image with `Smalltalk cleanUp: true except: {} > confirming: false.`, however that doesn't seem to help much. > My guess is that there are some objects that the system is permanently unable > to GC, however I have no idea how to find them (or even where to begin the > search). > > Just as a note, the size of the image by itself is not an issue (I have > plenty of disk space), however it is severly slowing down image saving. > > I remember that there was some issue with image shrinking, but I am not sure > what is the state of that. > > Oh, and I am using Pharo 5. > > Thanks, > Peter >
