From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-c-programming <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection and Swap
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 23:10:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40EF5E3F.90401@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040710023245.GE21066@holomorphy.com>
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
| On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:43:57PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
|
|>Read that. It's in all caps, so you should read it. It has meaning.
|>How about, everything is using Bohem GC. Bohem wanders around in the
|>heap concurrently. So all of your applications are wandering around
|>through their vm space everywhere, continuously.
|>You get low on ram. Let's say an app is using 500M of ram (Mozilla).
|>What's going to happen? Obvious. It's going to yank shit out of swap.
|>If we all linked against a GC, what kinds of swap hell do you think we'd
|>encounter?
|
|
| Ones almost as bad as the Hell of trolls going nuts over hypothetical
| problems no one is stupid enough to cause in practice anyway.
|
|
I'm actually trying to get the boehm one up, but it keeps setting PaX
off for some odd reason. I'd intended to have some test data right
about now. . . . >/ Firefox, gimp, hell vim can't run with boehm
LD_PRELOAD to redirect malloc(). Nano can. A simple tester can.
fortune can't. BASH doesn't seem to like it.
It's only hypothetical until I prove or disprove it; and I'm not afraid
to do either.
| -- wli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-10 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-10 0:43 Garbage Collection and Swap John Richard Moser
2004-07-10 2:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-10 3:10 ` John Richard Moser [this message]
2004-07-11 0:57 ` Rik van Riel
2004-07-11 1:06 ` Rik van Riel
2004-07-11 2:10 ` John Richard Moser
2004-07-13 22:10 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-13 23:53 ` John Richard Moser
2004-07-20 16:47 ` array size 1 ? Anshuman S. Rawat
2004-07-21 2:49 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2004-07-21 3:48 ` Glynn Clements
2004-08-08 5:37 ` Sascha Retzki
2004-07-14 10:20 ` Garbage Collection and Swap IVAN DE JESUS DERAS TABORA
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