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Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after G


From: Joe Marshall
Subject: Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it.
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:08:09 -0700

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:15:34 -0700
>   From: Joe Marshall <address@hidden>
>
>   On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
>   > Contrariwise, if I have six Scheme processes that have not freed their
>   > unused pages and the OS is constantly swapping, then the whole world
>   > gets much, much slower, especially at larger heap sizes.

Were they all actively computing, or were some of the processes waiting for
input?
-- 
~jrm



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