From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Understanding usage by the runtime
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:03:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453C993-CFD2-41AD-9611-A90398E560EC@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120101124454.GA12851@annexia.org>
On 2012-01-01, at 13:44, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Is compaction disabled? lablgtk disables it unconditionally by
> setting the global Gc max_overhead (see also the Gc documentation):
>
> src/gtkMain.ml:
> let () = Gc.set {(Gc.get()) with Gc.max_overhead = 1000000}
Anyone who disables compaction should seriously consider switching
to the first-fit allocation policy:
let () = Gc.set {(Gc.get ()) with Gc.allocation_policy = 1}
This may slow down allocations a bit, but the theory tells us that
it completely prevents unbounded fragmentation of the OCaml heap.
-- Damien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-30 23:45 orbitz
2011-12-31 9:11 ` David Baelde
2011-12-31 15:33 ` orbitz
2012-01-01 12:44 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-04 18:03 ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2012-01-04 18:48 ` Adrien
2012-01-04 19:37 ` John Carr
2012-01-07 5:43 ` orbitz
2012-01-08 18:45 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-08 19:00 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-08 22:33 ` Török Edwin
2012-01-09 14:31 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-09 21:07 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-08 22:50 ` orbitz
2012-01-08 23:02 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-08 23:26 ` orbitz
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