From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BAABB84 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:52:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6ECqhmf003537 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:52:43 +0200 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w49so617801pyg for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:52:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=i1U59RUC6FK7cPxHHiPz1QkLRs4Lr5Fwt3lIlOU61yN1XtBFhlumMH3aalfSCDYDbrb1Wx/KO/qT+yWMaQtRNl3WIRNqAv+0OvUKyowC/884KqfXxfEvl5OYDCdhkypMwQ2fjQ94ipGDekK9Yl/LfXBvAWV9Bzvmqh49VKdIdDU= Received: by 10.35.91.10 with SMTP id t10mr1954372pyl; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.20.11 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <875c7e070607140552s2d2fe962n43f8fd7502ccb9eb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:52:40 -0400 From: "Chris King" To: "Alexander Fuchs" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Limiting Memory Usage Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <44B711FC.7000001@uni-koblenz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44B711FC.7000001@uni-koblenz.de> X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 44B7939B.000 on nez-perce : j-chkmail score : X : 0/20 1 X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44B7939B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 stack:01 heap:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 terminate:01 cleanup:01 checking:02 alexander:03 alexander:03 fuchs:04 fuchs:04 rough:05 max:05 chris:05 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On 7/13/06, Alexander Fuchs wrote: > I would like to: > - limit the max. memory usage of an ocaml program > - and do some cleanup and then terminate then program, when this limit > is reached. > > I couldn't see how to do that with the standard libraries, Did you look at Gc? It's not a hard limit but periodically checking (quick_stat ()).heap_words will give you a rough estimate of how much memory your program is using (not exact since it doesn't count code/stack/etc.). - Chris King