Ok thanks. I'll have a very close look at it very soon and hopefully integrate it on www.besport.com backend then :) Many thanks to all of you Best William On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:04 AM, 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. > > Anil > > On 8 Dec 2011, at 08:19, William Le Ferrand wrote: > > hi Stephane > > Yes, but it's not exactly what we're looking for : we plan to access the > data at a (very) high rate, so swapping/unswapping would probably kill the > performance .. > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > >> Le 08/12/2011 05:35, William Le Ferrand a écrit : >> > We are building a cache in ocaml and we're wondering if it would make >> > sense to store ocaml values outside the reach of the gc. (gc on a 20GB >> > cache hangs the process for a second or so). >> >> Have you heard of the ancient [1] library? >> >> [1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-ancient.git;a=summary >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Stéphane >> >> > > > -- > William Le Ferrand > > Mobile : (+1) (415) 683-1484 > Web : http://williamleferrand.github.com/ > > > > -- William Le Ferrand Mobile : (+1) (415) 683-1484 Web : http://williamleferrand.github.com/