Re: Stopping the GC thread?

David Woodhouse
2003-06-11T16:17:28Z

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.

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