Re: a few observations & questions on gc

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From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 14:04:35 EST


Godmar Back writes:
> Therefore, I feel that we should always collect if we run out.

I agree with this.

Also, Amancio has pointed out that he's seen the following behavior:
if you run the same application using Klasses.jar as a zip file, kaffe
uses more memory (as measured by 'ps' output) than if you unpack
Klasses.jar into a hierarchy of class files.

FreeBSD's malloc/free should return free'd memory to the system, so
these should take about the same amount of memory. Perhaps the heap
get fragmented? I wasn't sure what could explain this. I think we have
already fixed the bug where we weren't free'ing memory associated with
uncompressing zip files.

Anyway, another thing to ponder..

-Archie

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