From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA59BBAF for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:21:39 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAKtOYkxQRFuw/2dsb2JhbACgJXG8AoU6BA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,353,1278280800"; d="scan'208";a="56973122" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 11 Aug 2010 16:21:38 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OjCBS-0005AH-1l; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:21:34 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:21:34 +0100 To: Paul Steckler Cc: "caml-list@yquem.inria.fr" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GC hangs application Message-ID: <20100811142134.GA19592@annexia.org> References: <2EB36A07AAE8C44BBB1986425E7A22D0128715A3DE@atp-mbx1.in.nicta.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2EB36A07AAE8C44BBB1986425E7A22D0128715A3DE@atp-mbx1.in.nicta.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; steckler:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 12.:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 strings:01 hangs:01 rarely:02 wed:06 red:92 written:07 swap:08 i'm:09 aug:10 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