GC Problems...

Fri Sep 10 00:44:00 GMT 2004

If the heap is increasing in 4K chunks, that probably means the
garbage collected heap is not growing. By default it grows in
much larger chunks.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org 
> [mailto:java-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On Behalf Of
> Simon Levitt
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:52 PM
> To: gnustuff@thisiscool.com; java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: GC Problems...
>>> On Thursday 09 September 2004 00:40, Mohan Embar wrote:
> > Let me know tomorrow how you fared and I'll submit a format patch.
> >
> I discovered a problem with my test last night that doesn't 
> make the results 
> as good, although I think there better than before (certainly 
> no worse).
>> I'd reconfigured GCJ to attempt to enable the GC_BACKTRACES 
> functionality. 
> That lost my local change to force the use of GlobalAlloc 
> (USE_GLOBAL_ALLOC).
>> We're testing on Win2000 boxes and they have real problems 
> allocating/garbage 
> collecing the memory without this setting.
>> Re-enabling the use of GlobalAlloc results in a slow leak 
> (from my simple 
> test) that means the heap increases quite slowly over time 
> (taking 4k jumps I 
> believe).
>> I haven't run it to its logical conclusion yet...
>> Damn... I though you'd got it...
>> Simon.,
>