Re: [Caml-list] GC hangs application

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 19:30 +1000, Paul Steckler wrote:
> I have an OCaml application that does a lot of string manipulations, generating a
> lot of garbage.  After running awhile, it seems not to make any progress.  The exact
> point where it hangs varies.  The strings aren't very large, but there a lot of them.

Is your application a well behaved purely Ocaml code, or do you have
Obj.magic or external functions written in C? Perhaps you are violating
some GC invariant.

You might still occasionally (i.e. every 1000 steps or requests, or
every few seconds) call Gc.compact.

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