[Etoys] Etoys image size

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 04.07.2009, at 11:54, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Thursday 11 Jun 2009 3:07:51 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 11.06.2009, at 08:16, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The etoys image size has grown to over 30MB now. How can I generate
>>> a report
>>> on the top memory hogs by categories or classes (and their
>>> instances, of
>>> course)? How do I make sure that memory hogs are indeed really
>>> needed in the
>>> base image and cannot be parceled into projects.
>>
>> SpaceTally new printSpaceAnalysis: 1 on: 'space.txt'
> This shows that the top three hoggers are ByteString, Array and
> CompiledMethod. Most of the space is in CompiledMethod (I suppose  
> most of the
> objects in the other two are influenced by this count). I got a  
> breakup by
> size. Most of the space is occupied by very small methods (20..40  
> bytes). It
> is like death through thousand cuts :-). I can trace senderless  
> methods and
> then onto unused classes manually. I also saw methods for minor and  
> major
> shrink but they appear obsolete.
>
> Is there an automated way to track unused stuff in an image on an  
> ongoing
> basis?

Don't think so.

> How do the master image builders keep an image trim?


We do not use out work images to build a release but one "master  
image" (the dev image) and only load updates, then save it.

- Bert -