Re: Gradual Growth of Memory Use?

Martin Simmons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:43:28 -0700, David McClain said:
> 
> So, from your suggestion, it would make most sense to perform (gc-generation
> 3) before doing the memory dump from Tim? Allow the system to discard the
> accumulated garbage first? Then compare dumps from two separated times.

It depends on what you are trying to measure.  Doing it without (gc-generation
3) will tell you why the memory is growing based on the automatic gc.  Doing
it with (gc-generation 3) will tell you what is really live.

> My experience running (gc-generation 3) in the past has shown that the
> memory image is indeed increasing. The results of the call do keep
> increasing, which would indicate memory actually in-use.

Yes, it suggests that.

-- 
Martin Simmons
LispWorks Ltd
http://www.lispworks.com/

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