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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] memory usage |
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:41:46PM +0800, John Lepikhin wrote:
> Please, give me some start point to find the roots of the problem.
Starting point should be to call this periodically:
Gc.compact ();
let stat = Gc.stat () in
let live_words = stat.Gc.live_words in
eprintf "live words %d\n%!" live_words;
which will tell you how many words (ie 4 or 8 byte chunks) are
reachable according to the garbage collector.
If this number is going up, then somewhere you are holding a pointer
to some object that you didn't expect to be live.
Rich.
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Richard Jones
Red Hat