Re: [Caml-list] gc overhead

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Warren Harris <warrensomebody@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to determine what percentage of my application's cpu time
> is spent in the garbage collector (for tuning purposes, but also just
> to monitor the overhead). Is there any way to obtain this information
> short of using gprof? Additional information provided by Gc.stat would
> be ideal, or perhaps a Gc.alarm that was called at the beginning of
> the gc cycle, but neither of these seem to exist.
>
> Warren

In my code I have a cache structure that implements a last-recently-used
ordering of cached objects. As objects are used the list grows an every
now and then I have to shrink it. It would be real nice if I could
shrink it exactly before evrey GC major cycle or compaction.

I also saw that Gc.alarm is called AFTER each GC cycle. But maybe that
doesn't matter as after a cycle is before a cycle. With the major cycle
being done in increments the next cycle probably starts right after the
last one finished compared to the time the cycle takes overall.

MfG
        Goswin