Thank you for the summary; we will try out this advice.
Ken
At 02:06 PM 6/15/00 +0200, Francis Leboutte wrote:
>At 14/06/00 17:48 -0700, Ken Forbus wrote:
>>In an application we are building, several global GC's occur at an
>>inconvenient time, e.g., while the user is waiting for something to
>>happen. What are the appropriate parameters to tune to (a) ramp up the
>>total space available, and (b) make global GC's less frequent, by doing
>>more growth when each one occurs? I've looked over the documentation and
>>wasn't able to figure this out from what was there, but of course I could
>>have overlooked something. Thanks in advance for any insights you can share.
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>Attached 2 recent posts from COMP.LANG.Lisp that should help you.
>Especially interesting is the description of new GC features that will be
>available in ACL6.
>Two more things :
>- you could trigger global GC at some well chosen time (e.g. after a long
>computation).
>- with the appropriate settings the efficiency of a generational GC should
>be greater than 95% like in the following:
> scavenging...done eff: 99%, copy new: 2931064 + old: 528688 = 3459752
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