[Oberon] Heap and GC

[Ulrike Glavitsch]

Hello,

we are fully aware of this problem and we also regard the current state 
as intolerable. Analysing the problem and finding a solution has a high 
priority in the next few months.

Best regards,

Ulla Glavitsch


Dan Parnete wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    Today I have made a newbie trip on the 13.12.05 Bluebottle version. 
> That mean I have opened and close all applications the menu offers. At 
> the end the Performance monitor indicates 144Mb occupancy with a 
> maximum of 153Mb (it starts at 22Mb from a total of 256Mb). The GC 
> didn't work to much. Then I have insisted to open 3 times the DTP, 
> with is the heaviest, and it easily arrived at 184Mb. From this point 
> opening any other application is a pain, all activities are frozen for 
> 5-6 seconds.
>    All this newbie trip takes 1 minute. In 1 minute the system becomes 
> unusable. Not very encouraging for a newbie.
>    This is an old story. We  have the same problem on BBw, of course, 
> and it becomes the most critical point of the moment. I'm wandering if 
> anybody works on that in ETH? A collaboration could be useful.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Parnete
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