On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <j...@irif.fr> wrote: > >> It depends entirely on your program. The simplest way to think about >> it is that the runtime imposes an overhead on the memory that your >> program allocates for its own data structures. If you think of that >> overhead as 10%, you won't be very far wrong. > > How does that fit with GOGC being 100% by default?
I wasn't thinking of that kind of overhead. You're right, for a long running program with the default GOGC, the memory overhead is 100%. That is, from the operating system's point of view, your program will allocate about twice as much memory as it really needs. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
