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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Playing with the VM Limits, crash on many processes


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] Playing with the VM Limits, crash on many processes
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:32:25 +0100
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On 11/20/2010 06:30 PM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
I created the attached torture test to get a feeling of how many processes I
can create and if my planned approach would work. With about 100.000 processes
I ran into a crash inside the GC. Compiling GST without support for the
generational GC seem not to crash.

Is this test just hitting the limit of number of objects that the GC can
properly manage?

It's certainly a heavy stress test, but it shouldn't crash the VM.  Thanks!

Paolo



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