On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 17:20:07 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:07:36 +0000, Jack Applegame wrote:
On a server with 4GB of RAM our D application consumes about
1GB.
Today we have increased server memory to 6 Gb and the same
application
under the same conditions began to consume about 3Gb of memory.
Does GC greediness depend on available RAM?
My understanding is that the GC won't return collected memory
to the OS unless a threshold relative the system total is
crossed. You can use GC.minimize() from core.memory to
decrease this. This could result in degraded performance.
Also see: https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html