GC with threads on Darwin/OS X

Thu Jan 16 09:30:00 GMT 2003

Andreas Tobler writes:
 > 
 > Here I see some random passes of FileHandleGcTest.exe, but most time it 
 > fails.
Don't worry about it. It's a long standing problem to do with the gc.
Basically, it's not possible to "stop the world" and do a garbage
collect when we run out of file handles because of some concurrency
issues. This has been fixed on Linux by changing the kernel to
support a huge (basically unlimited) number of them.
Andrew.