GC leaks debugging

Fri Apr 8 15:57:00 GMT 2011

On 04/08/2011 04:52 PM, Erik Groeneveld wrote:
>>> Paging Hans Boehm. can you suggest ways to get the system to GC more
>>> frequently? Would doing so avoid this scenario?
>>>>>>> Call _Jv_SetGCFreeSpaceDivisor(). I forget what we used to do, but bigger
>> numbers cause it to collect more often. The default may be 5, but if you
>> make it 20 or 25 you really reduce heap growth.
>> Yes, I saw this in the code and I already tried that with 30. Did not help. ;-(
> Also tried explicit GC_gcollect. Did also not help.
>> I'll sleep another night; new clues will come... ;-)

I think you should add some code to detect a high watermark and
then trap to a breakpoint.
Andrew.