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SubjectRe: Garbage Collection and Swap
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:43:57PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Read that. It's in all caps, so you should read it. It has meaning.
> How about, everything is using Bohem GC. Bohem wanders around in the
> heap concurrently. So all of your applications are wandering around
> through their vm space everywhere, continuously.
> You get low on ram. Let's say an app is using 500M of ram (Mozilla).
> What's going to happen? Obvious. It's going to yank shit out of swap.
> If we all linked against a GC, what kinds of swap hell do you think we'd
> encounter?

Ones almost as bad as the Hell of trolls going nuts over hypothetical
problems no one is stupid enough to cause in practice anyway.


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