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From: Alexander Fuchs <alexander.fuchs@uni-koblenz.de>
To: Chris King <colanderman@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Limiting Memory Usage
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:04:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B9202D.7080707@uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875c7e070607140552s2d2fe962n43f8fd7502ccb9eb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Chris King wrote:
 > Did you look at Gc?  It's not a hard limit but periodically checking
 > (quick_stat ()).heap_words will give you a rough estimate of how much
 > memory your program is using (not exact since it doesn't count
 > code/stack/etc.).

thanks for the suggestion. For some reason I thought that monitoring 
memory usage by calling the Gc functions often tends to be expensive.

But someone suggested to use Gc.create_alarm, and this works fine.

Thanks,

	Alexander



  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-15 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14  3:39 Alexander Fuchs
2006-07-14 12:52 ` [Caml-list] " Chris King
2006-07-15 17:04   ` Alexander Fuchs [this message]
2006-07-17  8:15 ` Damien Doligez

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