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From: Paul Steckler <steck@stecksoft.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Fwd: [Caml-list] More re GC hanging
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:55:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikWfV_LGnX-Hr7M4DKzoxPLpbH4BiPdmvqiK0YT@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=-8ZcxSy08fsh8wkTvscGLYzBsqN07OmOi5o6d@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Basile Starynkevitch
<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> To check that it did work as expected (which I doubt) do
>   cat /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
> it should give 0

It did work as expected.

> Are you sure that you don't have badly coded C routines that you call
> from your Ocaml code (don't forget correct use of CAMLparam & CAMLlocal,
> read again carefully
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual032.html and perhaps
> other material about precise garbage collectors).

I'm not calling any C code directly.  I am using the ocaml-ssl
library, which has
some simple calls into the OpenSSL library.

> Are you sure you don't have a memory leak in your Ocaml code? This could
> happen when a reference value refers to a "big" value you don't need
> anymore.

Possible.  I'll try printing out some memory statistics to see how much memory
is being consumed.

-- Paul


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-15  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-15  5:57 Paul Steckler
2010-08-15  7:03 ` [Caml-list] " Basile Starynkevitch
2010-08-15  8:34   ` Paul Steckler
2010-08-15  8:40   ` Paul Steckler
2010-08-15  9:16     ` Basile Starynkevitch
     [not found]       ` <AANLkTi=-8ZcxSy08fsh8wkTvscGLYzBsqN07OmOi5o6d@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-15  9:55         ` Paul Steckler [this message]
2010-08-15 10:41           ` Fwd: " Sylvain Le Gall
2010-08-15 11:32             ` [Caml-list] " Vincent Hanquez
2010-08-15 10:45       ` [Caml-list] " Adrien
2010-08-15 11:17         ` David Allsopp
2010-08-15 12:12         ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-09-01 15:24         ` Damien Doligez
2010-09-01 16:44           ` Adrien
2010-08-15 10:19     ` rixed
2010-08-20 15:21   ` Richard Jones
2010-08-20 23:30     ` Eray Ozkural
2010-08-22 13:02       ` Adrien
2010-08-25 15:17         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-08-18 12:22 ` Goswin von Brederlow

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