Re: [Caml-list] Slow GC problem

[Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>]

> I have a gc efficiency problem for which I require some advice. I have 
> read both the O'Reilly book and the manual on gc.
[...]
>  Below I give the gc stats just before and after the solver routine is 
> called in the in-core solver:
>
> 				"Just before"	"Just after"
> minor_words:		46243376	139259767
> promoted_words:	928267		2595523
> major_words:		2883087		39489766
> minor_collections:	1412		4591
> major_collections:	18			52
> heap_words:		2150400		1044480
> heap_chunks:		35			17
> top_heap_words:	2150400		5038080
> live_words:		1842373		840037
> live_blocks:		253926		116816
> free_words:		307180		204440
> free_blocks:		47368		17
> largest_free:		10928		61440
> fragments:		847			3
> compactions:		0			2

As others have said, this is not really enough information to tell
what is going on.  What we can say from the above is:

1. You are allocating lots and lots of data structures in the major
    heap (maybe finalized bigarray descriptors)
2. The compactor was called twice, which may indicate that you have
    a fragmentation problem.
3. The compactor was called near the end of the solver routine,
    which must have erased most of the evidence...

-- Damien

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