On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:42:07 +0100 Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/08/2014 21:40, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> > I think I know what happens. According to perf the benchmark spends 34%+
> > of time in garbage collection ('perf record -- $args'/'perf report'):
> >
> > 27,91% test test [.] evacuate
> > 9,29% test test [.] s9Lz_info
> > 7,46% test test [.] scavenge_block
> >
> > And the whole benchmark runs a tiny bit more than 300ms.
> > It is exactly in line with major GC timer (0.3s).
>
> 0.3s is the *idle* GC timer, it has no effect when the program is
> running normally. There's no timed GC or anything like that.
>
> It sometimes happens that a tiny change somewhere tips a program over
> into doing one more major GC, though.
>
> > If we run
> > $ time ./test inverter 345 10n 4u 1>/dev/null
> > multiple times there is heavy instability in there (with my patch reverted):
> > real 0m0.319s
> > real 0m0.305s
> > real 0m0.307s
> > real 0m0.373s
> > real 0m0.381s
> > which is +/- 80ms drift!
> >
> > Let's try to kick major GC earlier instead of running right at runtime
> > shutdown time:
> > $ time ./test inverter 345 10n 4u +RTS -I0.1 1>/dev/null
> >
> > real 0m0.304s
> > real 0m0.308s
> > real 0m0.302s
> > real 0m0.304s
> > real 0m0.308s
> > real 0m0.306s
> > real 0m0.305s
> > real 0m0.312s
> > which is way more stable behaviour.
> >
> > Thus my theory is that my changed stepped from
> > "90% of time 1 GC run per run"
> > to
> > "90% of time 2 GC runs per run"
>
> Is this program idle? I have no idea why this might be happening! If
> the program is busy computing stuff, the idle GC should not be firing.
> If it is, that's a bug.
The task is a completely CPU-bound thing.
Then I was very lucky to get that change with -I option.
I'll try to find exact place where profiling times change (or just float),
but it will take more time.
--
Sergei
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