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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Paul Steckler <Paul.Steckler@nicta.com.au>
Cc: "caml-list@yquem.inria.fr" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GC hangs application
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:21:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100811142134.GA19592@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2EB36A07AAE8C44BBB1986425E7A22D0128715A3DE@atp-mbx1.in.nicta.com.au>

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:30:44PM +1000, Paul Steckler wrote:
> Are there known issues with the OCaml gc?

Are you exceeding available RAM?  I have observed the GC slowing to a
crawl once we start to swap.

If your strings are mainly read and rarely/never written, then using
ocaml-ancient is one potential solution to this.

> I'm using OCaml 3.11 on Fedora 12.

There are no specific issues with OCaml in Fedora 12 that I know of.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-11 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-11  9:30 Paul Steckler
2010-08-11 12:21 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2010-08-11 12:53 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-08-11 14:21 ` Richard Jones [this message]

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