On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:04:10PM -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > On Jul 19, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > My son tried to gat a web site working using the RAcket web engine. In > > the end, he failed. He had rented virtual machine from a server > > provider, and discovered that Racket just used too much active memory > > for that configuration to be practical. Every now and then his > > virtual machine would blow up in memory usage and crash. Given more > > real memory, or maybe a machine to itself, it might have worked > > quite well. He eventually switched other software, despite having a > > kind of love aaffair with Scheme. > > > Not that I can contradict you -- you were there with your son, I wasn't -- it > would be really helpful to get more details on stories like that as soon as > they happen.
He's Henk Boom; I believe he was discussing his problems here on this mailing list while he was struggling with it. That was, maybe, two or three years ago? -- hendrik > > Racket is used on commercial contexts by web companies so it wouldn't just > help us but them too. I asked him for the executive summary, soo to speak, and he told me that the problem ws that Racket was more demanding on a virtual machine (which is potentially shared) than on a real machine (where you actually have all the real memory you think you have). Still, Racket apparently used more memory that the system he's using now. > > -- Matthias > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
