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From: oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
Cc: "William Le Ferrand" <William.Le-Ferrand@polytechnique.edu>,
	"Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>,
	"caml users" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Storing ocaml values outside ocaml's heap
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:03:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111208110343.GC2042@siouxsie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18AE17A3-A732-4F7D-954E-58C7A1D538B4@recoil.org>

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:04:50AM +0000, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> I think Ancient is exactly what you're looking for.
> 
> Just disable swap (which you should do anyway on a big modern server), and it
> will let you keep in-memory, out-of-heap OCaml values that don't get scanned by
> the GC.
[...]


Completely disabling swap can crash the system.
Better just fine tune it, so that it uses swapping less often.

=> on Linux swappiness can be set via /proc:   /proc/sys/vm/swappiness


Ciao,
  Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-08 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08  4:35 William Le Ferrand
2011-12-08  6:04 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-08  8:19   ` William Le Ferrand
2011-12-08  9:04     ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2011-12-08  9:07       ` William Le Ferrand
2011-12-08 11:03       ` oliver [this message]
2011-12-08 17:02         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-08  9:40   ` Gaius Hammond
2011-12-08  8:49 ` Anders Fugmann
2011-12-08  8:56   ` William Le Ferrand
2011-12-08  9:29     ` Anders Fugmann
2011-12-08  9:12 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-08 10:33 ` Goswin von Brederlow

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