Garbage collector stopping my world for half a second

Tue Dec 6 20:29:00 GMT 2005

Hi,
>> 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?

No comment? (HP?)
BR,
 Martin Egholm