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From: David Rajchenbach-Teller <David.Teller@mlstate.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Being aware of memory overuse
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:34:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FCD24B5C-3E72-489B-8F09-A3F3A5BE0C41@mlstate.com> (raw)

       Dear list,
 I'm writing some code that needs to be able to cope nicely with memory exhaustion. That is, it should be able to detect at some point if it is getting close to exhausting memory, and take the necessary course of action (e.g. bailing out nicely). I'm wondering what's the best way of doing this. I've been thinking about installing a [Gc.alarm] and checking [Gc.free_words], [Gc.free_blocks], [Gc.largest_free] just after each major cycle, but I'm wondering if it's the best technique.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance,
 David


-- 
David Rajchenbach-Teller
 Head of R&D
 MLstate


             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-05 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-05 10:34 David Rajchenbach-Teller [this message]
2010-02-06 13:34 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-02-10  8:45   ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2010-02-10 13:43     ` Dario Teixeira
2010-02-10 17:47       ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-02-10 21:31       ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow

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