Re: [Gcl-devel] [Maxima-discuss] gcl memory usage

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Gunter Königsmann <address@hidden> writes:

>> 
>> gcl's decision to consume all available memory before GCing seems very
>> unfriendly, and would seem to make the GC pause huge.
>>

By default GCL will start gc at 1/2 physical memory, then progressively
increase aggressivity to maximum at 3/4.  The parameters are all
adjustable with environment variable settings.
 
>
> What I like about gcl is that if you start several maxima instances at
> the same time they seem to be able to communicate about which instance
> uses how much memory.
>

Glad to see this feature is getting some exercise, as I think it needs
to be turned on by default at release.  There is a small overhead which
I regret, but communicating to multi-instance users how to setup their
environment seems to forbidding an alternative.

Thanks for all your work on maxima!

Take care,


> I've now committed the 2nd patch.
>
> The 1st try to do so resulted in a "bad gateway" error. The 2nd one
> worked with public key auth again => seems like sf.net is currently
> working on the git stack.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>    Gunter.
>
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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