Garbage collector stopping my world for half a second

Mon Dec 5 08:59:00 GMT 2005

Hi again,
> 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.
I got stuck with some other problems, but I just tried setting the
GC_DUMP_REGULARLY environment variable - along with the print_stats
variable:
export GC_PRINT_STATS=1
export GC_DUMP_REGULARLY=1
export GC_dump_regularly=1
However, nothing shows up besides the info from PRINT_STATS... Strange?
// Martin