Re: [elephant-devel] Garbage collection problem

2007-09-25 Thread Ian Eslick
How about just giving us a profile of memory usage? I don't know what Lisp your are using, but Allegro, for example, has a (prof:with- profiling (:type :space) ...) that gives you a breakdown of memory allocation by function. This would be very helpful. While a great deal of attention has

Re: [elephant-devel] Garbage collection problem

2007-09-25 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Chris Laux dies 25/09/2007 hora 19:33: > > Could you give a small testcase that demonstrates this? > [...] I don't think a small test case would produce this, but that it > is produced by a fairly large database (GBs) with >>1000 BTrees that > was queried by >10 parallel threads. Could you

Re: [elephant-devel] Garbage collection problem

2007-09-25 Thread Chris Laux
Pierre THIERRY wrote: >> while using Elephant I've noticed that garbage collections now take up >> to 10 minutes with the (current model) CPU at 100% load!? > > Could you give a small testcase that demonstrates this? Sorry about the late reply. I haven't yet managed to reproduce the behaviour ou