On Mar 14, 2005, at 16:17, Ken Rose wrote:

>> So if you allocate some things that go directly into the major heap
>> (for example reasonably large arrays or strings) you need a big major
>> heap as well as a big minor heap:
>>   setenv OCAMLRUNPARAM 's=500M,h=500M,v=0x1ff'
>
> Is there some way to do this from inside the OCaml program?  I don't 
> see anything in a quick look at the documents for GC.

Look for "minor_heap_size" and "verbose" in the "control" record type.
As for the initial heap size, of course it cannot be set from inside
the program, but "major_heap_increment" will do in this case.

Reference: < http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Gc.html >

-- Damien