[plt-scheme] Massive memory consumption

This should have gone to the list:

Matthew,
  
Would using 3m with the PLT web-server be a good strategy?
  
Thanks,
David

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:20:12PM -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote:
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> At Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:53:57 -0700, Devlin Bentley wrote:
> > Trivial toy problem, itty bitty issue with a non-terminating recursive
> > function call, but after the program is terminated (on those occasions
> > that I am able to terminate it...) DrScheme keeps using up about 200MB
> > of ram.
> > [...]
> > Right now I am running DrScheme 208p1 on a Win32 box, would changing
> > over to the latest unstable build help any?
> 
> The default v299 build won't help, because the problem is essentially
> with the collector, and that hasn't changed.
> 
> A "3m" build with v299 would likely help, though. The "3m" variant of
> DrScheme uses a more precise garbage collector, so it can release a
> run's 200 MB more quickly. Furthermore, the 3m collector is able to
> return unused memory back to the OS.
> 
> Eventually, we'd like to make 3m the default build for PLT Scheme. It's
> been a long road so far, and it appears that we have a ways to go, yet.
> The 3m variants are not currently included in the nightly binary
> builds. But I think we're getting closer, and 3m should be restored to
> the nightly builds soon.
> 
> Matthew