Garbage collector stopping my world for half a second

Thu Dec 1 18:52:00 GMT 2005

Strong agreement here.
But unless GC_free_space_divisor is set to a large number, it looked to
me like the root set was unlikely to be much bigger than on the order of
10MB. That's still way too big, but nowhere near big enough to explain
a 360msec pause, at least not on something PC-like.
It is certainly worth running once with GC_DUMP_REGULARLY to see what
the root set sizes really are.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Haley [mailto:aph@redhat.com] 
> ...
> With gcj our root set is way, way too big. Fixing this is at 
> the top of my list of things to fix.
>> Andrew.
>>