On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 9:26:17 AM UTC-6, Alex Miller wrote: > > When you disable locals clearing, you will start holding the head of > (potentially large) locals everywhere. This is the reason that locals are > aggressively called in the first place. This is a typical consequence of > disabling locals clearing and the reason why they are cleared by default. >
Got it, thanks. Makes sense. So I was just lucky that I didn't experience a problem with 1.6.0--maybe because of the lack of optimizations that were introduced in 1.7.0. Thanks Alex, Ghadi. > This is a good example of a typical head holding issue: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15994316/clojure-head-retention > I know about head holding in general, and initially spent some time making sure I wasn't inadvertently doing that. The linked example and explanations look especially interesting, though--thanks. > > > On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 12:49:03 AM UTC-6, Mars0i wrote: >> >> In my application, I seem to get a memory leak when I use >> -Dclojure.compiler.disable-locals-clearing=true in Clojure 1.7.0 and 1.8.0, >> but not in 1.6.0. (i.e. I get "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead >> limit exceeded" with the more recent versions). >> >> Any guesses about why this might happen? Just curious. >> >> (I think I can live without disabling locals-clearing. I don't fully >> understand it. Not sure why I started using it. I don't use a debugger.) >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
