[plt-scheme] threads, memory leakage?

I'll settle for collect-garbage first. Let's see.

Thanks,

Hans


Noel Welsh schreef:
> I don't know the details of either the 3m or the Boehm GC,
> but I do know that in general GCs don't collect until the
> heap is exhausted (this is more efficient).  Therefore, my
> first suggestion is to establish that you do indeed have a
> leak, either by forcing the process to run out of memory,
> or by observing steadily increasing memory usage when you
> trigger the GC (using (collect-garbage)).
>
> If you do have a leak I don't really have any suggestions
> beyond using 3m, or restarting every once in a while.  I
> think 3m has some features to track memory 'ownership', but
> I have never used them.
>
> N.
>
> --- Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema <hdnews at gawab.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> As for the memory usage, 114MB isn't that much. 
>>>       
>> At the end of the evening it was up to 165MB. It just
>> increases
>> about 2MB per test run. It isn't that the server side is
>> very
>> busy or so. And you know, I'm developing for people with
>> 256MB machines. For those machines, 160MB is much.
>> Having GC working on swapped out memory isn't very nice
>> I've heard.
>>
>> Btw. I don't know if the sqlid drivers I'm using in the
>> server side
>> backend will work that well with 3m, although that may be
>> quite easily to fix. I'm pretty sure though, that the
>> mzgtk2 binding
>> to Gtk+ (v2) that I'm using on the client side will not
>> be usable with
>> m3 at the moment, without a lot of work involved.
>>
>> What's more: I don't see increasing memory that much for
>> mzgtk2 applications. What would you advice in this
>> context?
>>
>> --Hans
>>     
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