Re: [Sbcl-help] Garbage collection for server with user sessions

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On 10 March 2010 22:29, Brett van de Sande <bv...@as...> wrote:

> 4.  If I run the server with the above changes, it appears that
>    garbage collection is working as desired:  garbage collection occurs
>    every 3 minus (generation 2), doesn't use too much cpu, and seems to
>    be recovering the memory.  However, after about a half hour, I get a
>    heap exhausted error.   So, I tried to increase the heap size:
>        (def!constant dynamic-space-end         #x3ffff000)
>    in src/compiler/x86/parms.lisp (to meet up with bottom of shared libs)
>    This gives 922742784 bytes of heap space, instead of 500K
>    However the heap exhaustion error still occurs, although a bit later:
>        Heap exhausted during allocation: 234094592 bytes available,
>        268435464 requested.

As Juho noted, this is during allocation, not GC. What's the heap
composition at this point? There should be a printout.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus