On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Martin Jambon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible that non-negligible amounts of unreachable data are never
> freed by the GC?
>
> My program seems to waste memory, even with Gc.max_overhead set to 50 (or
> even 0).
> What should I do?

It appears finally that explicit calls to Gc.compact solve the problem (or
at least one of my problems).

Setting Gc.max_overhead to a given value (e.g. 50%) didn't work in this
case.
Symptom: compactions are performed until a certain point
(in my case, 67 compactions), and then no compaction is triggered anymore
for a very long (infinite?) time, resulting in a linear increase of the
memory.



Thanks to all those that sent me their suggestions.

Au passage, un grand merci à l'équipe Caml pour son travail de très haute
qualité.


Martin Jambon

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