On 14 April 2005 15:35, Josef Svenningsson wrote:
> I've had some fun chasing around a couple of space leaks lately. One
> of the graphs that I produced looked like this:
> www.cs.chalmers.se/~josefs/coresa.ps
>
> Notice the shape of the graph. It shows a perfect squareroot function.
> But my program should be allocating at a constant rate. From previous
> experience this suggests that there is a time complexity bug in the
> garbage collector. This makes it take time proportional to the square
> of the amount of allocated memory. Can someone confirm this?
The X axis of the heap profile is mutator time: that is runtime
excluding GC time, so you wouldn't see any non-linear GC effects in the
shape of the heap profile anyway. You'll be able to confirm this by
comparing the time on the profile to the wall-clock time, and checking
the output from +RTS -sstderr is useful too.
It's possible you're seeing cache effects: as the working set grows
larger, the program slows down. The shape does look a bit too perfect
to be cache effects, though.
I wouldn't rule out any bugs (of course :-), so please send us further
evidence if you find it.
Cheers,
Simon
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