On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 15:57 +1000, Paul Steckler wrote:
> I haven't yet come up with a solution to the GC hanging problem I
> mentioned the other day.
> 
> But here's something that looks funny. [..]

> After turning on the Gc verbose option, I see:

[...]
>  !<>Sweeping 9223372036854775807 words
>  Starting new major GC cycle
>  Marking 9223372036854775807 words
>  Subphase = 10
>  Sweeping 9223372036854775807 words
> 
> Those are some big mark and sweep numbers at the end!

I guess this is related to the fact that recent Linux kernel have turned
on the randomize virtual address space feature -designed to improve
system security. You could disable it by 
  echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
but first learn more about it.

I believe recent Ocaml versions (did you try 3.12?) have GC improvements
for that.

Cheers.
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