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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Storing ocaml values outside ocaml's heap

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:04:50AM +0000, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> I think Ancient is exactly what you're looking for.
> 
> Just disable swap (which you should do anyway on a big modern server), and it
> will let you keep in-memory, out-of-heap OCaml values that don't get scanned by
> the GC.
[...]


Completely disabling swap can crash the system.
Better just fine tune it, so that it uses swapping less often.

=> on Linux swappiness can be set via /proc:   /proc/sys/vm/swappiness


Ciao,
  Oliver