[Cuis-dev] [DEFECT] Debugger leaves terminated processes

[Juan Vuletich]

On 10/20/2022 1:20 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi all, Hi Juan,
>
> I think I found the cause of my huge images:
> The Debugger (or process termination)
> leaves terminated processes hanging around.
>
> First I saved the image before running the
> killer-Block (see the attached killit.st):
>
> -- snip --
> beforeLargeStack.image
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bear bear 27M Okt 20 17:50 
> Haver6.0-5496-beforeLargeStack.image
> -- snap --
>
> Than I ran killit and simply closed the debugger window
> and saved the image:
>
> -- snip --
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bear bear 1.9G Okt 20 17:51 
> Haver6.0-5496-afterLargeStack.image
> -- snap --
>
> From 27 megabytes to 1.9 gigabytes in 20 seconds,
> that's quite a feature, albeit a bad one.
>
> When I print all existing processes -- see diagnoseKillit.st -- I
> could see there are a lot of terminated processes hanging around.
>
> I did `self break` and closed the debugger: More terminated processes.
> Bad enough: `Smalltalk garbageCollect` does not help.
>
> The first part of RunningProcesses.txt is the transcript
> output after running the killer-block.
> (There are already some terminated processes, because I used
> image to implement the fixes, I just posted).
> The second part is transcript output after one `self break`;
> I didn't check exactly, but there are more terminated processes.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Gerald

I just tried on a fresh Cuis.
1) Evaluated your killer 10M
2) waited for it to finish
3) closed the debugger.
4) 2 terminated processes.
5) Smalltalk garbageCollect
6) no terminated processes.

Looks ok to me.

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