[plt-scheme] Garbage collection woes

From: Jon Rafkind (workmin at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 9 02:02:52 EST 2007

> With my limited knowledge of garbage collector implementation, I would
> think that a fix as simple as only moving objects to mature space
> after they survive X number of nursery collections would help this
> tremendously.
hm, maybe as a simple test you could play with the values in
src/mzscheme/gc2/newgc.c ?

#define GEN0_PAGE_SIZE (1 * 1024 * 1024)
#define MAX_GEN0_SIZE (32 * 1024 * 1024)

those control the size of the nursery.


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