[m-dev.] Advice needed on GC related problem

[Ralph Becket]

Zoltan Somogyi, Friday, 30 January 2004:
> 
> I think I found the problem, even without looking at the source code
> :-)

Thanks for spotting that one!

> It looks like your test simply keep so much live data around that the
> gc keeps expanding the heap, and the kernel kills the process (without
> the courtesy of a signal, since aral has the default Linux behavior of
> allowing overcommit of virtual memory) when its VM requirements exceed
> available resources, i.e.  real memory plus swap space.

This occurred to me.  I'll take a closer look at the code; I've
scrutinised it fairly closely and it's not obvious to me what could be
keeping all that data live.  Hmm...

Ta,
-- Ralph
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mercury-developers mailing list
Post messages to:       mercury-developers at cs.mu.oz.au
Administrative Queries: owner-mercury-developers at cs.mu.oz.au
Subscriptions:          mercury-developers-request at cs.mu.oz.au
--------------------------------------------------------------------------