RE: GC options. Reply

2001-08-09 Thread Simon Marlow
Hello! On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: - Compacting garbage collection is enabled when the residency reaches a certain percentage of the maximum heap size (if there is one). Could there be the possibility to set an absolute amount of memory

Re: GC options. Reply

2001-08-08 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: - Compacting garbage collection is enabled when the residency reaches a certain percentage of the maximum heap size (if there is one). Could there be the possibility to set an absolute amount of memory to start

GC options. Reply

2001-08-07 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Hello, here are my votes on Simon Marlow's questions. Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default? Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. [..] 1. remove the default limit altogether 2. raise the default limit 3. no change Put the default

Re: GC options. Reply

2001-08-07 Thread Marc van Dongen
S.D.Mechveliani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default? : Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. : [..] : 1. remove the default limit altogether : 2. raise the default limit : 3. no change : : Put the default to

Re: GC options. Reply

2001-08-07 Thread John Meacham
I like the enviornment variable option, I would very much like to have part of my log-in sequence parse the output of 'free' or some other real memory reporting tool and set the limits as appropriate for the system I happen to be on. John On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:54:25AM +0100, Marc

RE: GC options. Reply

2001-08-07 Thread Simon Marlow
Ok, I've done the following: - disabled the maximum heap size by default. It can still be enabled with +RTS -Msize - RTS options are taken from the GHCRTS environment variable in addition to the command line (the command line has precedence). - Compacting garbage collection is

Re: GC options. Reply

2001-08-07 Thread Ketil Malde
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I've done the following: - disabled the maximum heap - RTS options are taken from the GHCRTS environment variable in addition to the command line (the command line has precedence). (I haven't followed this debate closely, so I may be

RE: GC options. Reply

2001-08-07 Thread Simon Marlow
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I've done the following: - disabled the maximum heap - RTS options are taken from the GHCRTS environment variable in addition to the command line (the command line has precedence). (I haven't followed this debate closely, so