Re: Garbage collection qustion

From: Damien Doligez (Damien.Doligez@inria.fr)
Date: Wed Jul 01 1998 - 11:26:25 MET DST


Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:26:25 +0200
From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
Message-Id: <199807010926.LAA20020@tobago.inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Garbage collection qustion

>From: Ohad Rodeh <orodeh@cs.huji.ac.il>

>[allocation: minor=0.0M (4% promoted) (direct major=0K)|collections:
>minor=1, major=0, compact=0|words: 63488 (0% live) (1 chunks)|blocks: 120
>(99% live) (largest_free=62878)]
[...]
>[allocation: minor=2.7M (0% promoted) (direct major=0K)|collections:
>minor=91, major=21, compact=3|words: 63488 (1% live) (1 chunks)|blocks:
>255 (99% live) (largest_free=62343)]

I think you are misinterpreting the numbers. The relevant variable
here is heap_words, which doesn't increase at all.

Does the size of your process (as reported by ps) actually increase ?

-- Damien



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