cardinal@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ralph Cardinal) (07/11/89)
I recently began writing larger than 50 line programs in Smalltalk/V. Last night I was running a program which has a collection of Forms, defined by the user. These Forms are then displayed in an animated fashion. As long as I ran with 20 or less Forms of a small size, then all was fine. Now to my problem. I ran 100 Forms, and to my surprise, the speaker emitted 4 or 5 descending tones. The hard disk went crazy for 2 or 3 minutes, then another 4 or 5 ascending tones were emitted. After this incident, I ran through the rest of the program just fine, however, after the program finished, I am unable, with my current image, to get the program running properly. The program will hang in different places each time, and never finish. What do the notes (ascending and descending) indicate? I can't find any mention in the manual. Is this object swapping? And, finally, what might I do to get my environment, using the current image, back on track? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ralph P. Cardinal (e-mail is fine for answering)
dean@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Dean Swan) (07/17/89)
From article <2784@ssc-vax.UUCP>, by cardinal@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ralph Cardinal): > Is this object swapping? Yes, the tones indicated that swapping is taking place. > finally, what might I do to get my environment, using the > current image, back on track? Evaluate the following expression in any text pane: Smalltalk saveNotSwapped If it is possible to do so, Smalltalk/V will then save an image with all swapped out object swapped back in. You might also want to use 'space' mode rather than 'speed' mode (selected from the system menu). -Dean Swan dean@sun.soe.clarkson.edu