Garbage collector stopping my world for half a second

[Martin Egholm Nielsen]

Hi,

>> Strong agreement here.
>>
>> But unless GC_free_space_divisor is set to a large number, it looked
>> to me like the root set was unlikely to be much bigger than on the
>> order of 10MB.  That's still way too big, but nowhere near big enough
>> to explain a 360msec pause, at least not on something PC-like.
>>
>> It is certainly worth running once with GC_DUMP_REGULARLY to see what
>>  the root set sizes really are.
> 
> I got stuck with some other problems, but I just tried setting the
> GC_DUMP_REGULARLY environment variable - along with the print_stats
> variable:
> 
> export GC_PRINT_STATS=1
> export GC_DUMP_REGULARLY=1
> export GC_dump_regularly=1
> 
> However, nothing shows up besides the info from PRINT_STATS... Strange?

No comment? (HP?)

BR,
  Martin Egholm