On Sun 29 Nov, Dan Ingalls wrote:
Methinks it's because Squeak compresses all its Forms in a normal snapshot, but the im age running the systemTracer will have expanded many of them (such as fonts).
The fact that there are 1.7+Mb of Bitmap in the image looks very likely to be the culprit!
I would try Form shutDown at the beginning of writeClone. Also, I'm not sure if we clamp the displayScreen. If not, that would make a difference, or you could at least go to color depth 1 before w riting the image.
Substituting the Display is definitely a good option, and an easy one (I have some Tracer hacks that make it very easy to do a substitution of that sort) but I think some care is probably needed about shutting down Form -- the Tracer does some displaying as it goes and I can image some possible problems if the Display and a font are unhibernated in the middle of tracing them. I'll see how it goes before worrying too much!
I love the Tracer. You can do so many unnatural thins with it....
tim