Re: Stopping the GC thread?

Steven Scholz
2003-06-11T16:20:28Z

David Woodhouse schrieb:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:12, Steven Scholz wrote:
>
>>(How) Could I trigger the GC thread to test its impact on my
>>application or the overall system performance?
>>Is there a signal I could sent to start a GC?
>
>
> No. You used to be able to trigger it by repeatedly sending it SIGHUP
> but that doesn't work any more. I keep intending to make the thresholds
> tunable in /proc though, which you could abuse to do what you want.
>

So for now I just could hardcode the thresholds (ehm which BTW?) to
some low value, recompile and test?

Steven