From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-11-19T04:49:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25774] Re: Memory conservation and profiling. [was: Ruby on a PDA]

Kent Dahl wrote:
> 
> Kero van Gelder wrote:
> > Would be nice! Some auto-triggered GC when near that ceiling, perhaps?
> 
> Yeah. Either way, more control over memory would be nice.

I went looking in the source and found GC_MALLOC_LIMIT in gc.c.

As far as I can tell, it is only used to trigger GC'ing when new memory
is allocated beyond that limit, which is 8Mb. That wouldn't account for
eating up 32 Mb.

Are there anything I have to keep in mind if I lower the limit? My PDA
has only 8 Mb total, but I'm not sure if the defines for MSDOS (200Kb
limit) are fitting, so I have no idea what would be a good limit.

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