Hello!

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

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- Compacting garbage collection is enabled when the residency reaches a certain percentage of the maximum heap size (if there is one).

Could there be the possibility to set an absolute amount of memory to start compacting, at least for the case of no maximum heap size?

Yes, there could be, but I don't want the GC tunables to get any more complicated than they already are. In this case you could just set the maximum heap size to the size of your memory+swap and then set the compaction threshold so that compaction would kick in at the desired point. Cheers, Simon