On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:09 AM, John M McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

If you are compiling your own macintosh VM

Thanks John for the answer. Yes, I am compiling my own, but the problem is present with the standard vm also. I answer above....
 
then go look at
sqSqueakOSXApplication.m

- (NSInteger) parseArgument: (NSString *) argData peek: (NSString *) peek {
...
       if ([argData compare: @"-memory"] == NSOrderedSame) {
               gMaxHeapSize = (usqInt) [self strtobkm: [peek UTF8String]];
               return 2;
       }
       return 0;
}



I tried this passing -memory 1500m.  The value is get and set correct here.
So, after this, we have:
gMaxHeapSize = 1572864000


The problem is that after, when you choose the image to start, and the function sqAllocateMemoryMac is called, gMaxHeapSize lost the value passes by -memory and has again the default.
So, in this case, when this function is called,

gMaxHeapSize = 536870912

and not 1572864000


 
and follow the bouncing gMaxHeapSize to see what happens.
You'll find the use at
        startOfmmapForANONMemory = mmap(startOfAnonymousMemory, freeSpaceRoundedUpToPageSize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON|MAP_SHARED,0,(off_t)0);

in sqMacV2Memory.c



Here it doesn't pass because the big if
    if (gSqueakUseFileMappedMMAP) {
returns 0 since this is the value it has in the Info.plist

What is that if I set a special value in SqueakMaxHeapSize (1572864000) weird is that enabling or not that value, I have more or less the same results:

gSqueakUseFileMappedMMAP  ->   0
Smalltalk garbageCollect  1505201876

gSqueakUseFileMappedMMAP  ->   1
Smalltalk garbageCollect  1505199640

But in one case the
startOfmmapForANONMemory = mmap(startOfAnonymousMemory, freeSpaceRoundedUpToPageSize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON|MAP_SHARED,0,(off_t)0);

is executed and in other one no.


Thanks in advance,

Mariano

 

On 2010-11-30, at 5:03 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:

>
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 12:41:44AM +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
>> marianopeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis@mail.msen.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm away and cannot check this right now, but if you look in the
>>>> SqS/VMMaker archive there there are a number of recent updates that
>>>> may address this problem. See the Montecello update comments for
>>>> VMMaker-dtl.188, VMMaker-dtl.199, and VMMaker-dtl.200 for summaries.
>>>> These updates would not be in any of the released VMs at this point,
>>>> but I have a hunch that they will take care of this problem.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Dave. Ok...after a couple of hours I could compile a new VM for MacOS
>>> with VMMaker 205 and integrating all my changes :)
>>> So....this was something I have to do since several months already hehhehe
>>>
>>> Now, as you guessed, something  was related to that. Now, these are the
>>> results:
>>>
>>> normal:
>>>
>>> Smalltalk garbageCollect   481957728
>>> Smalltalk primBytesLeft 5738200
>>>
>>> with -memory 1500m
>>>
>>> Smalltalk garbageCollect    482093452
>>> Smalltalk primBytesLeft 6444200
>>>
>>
>> mmmmmmm  if instead of sending -memory I modify Info.plist  and I set
>> 1572864000  (1500gb)
>> then I get
>>
>> Smalltalk garbageCollect  1518058920
>> Smalltalk primBytesLeft 5898636
>>
>> :)
>>
>> so maybe the mac vm is not taking into acount -memory but it does the file?
>
> Well that's as good a theory as anything I could have made up ;-)
>
> To be serious, the -memory parameter is part of the unix VM, and
> other platforms may do things differently. So yes, I think you
> have found the right explanation.
>
> Dave
>
>

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