On Monday 04 February 2008, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
That would be nice. But its only beneficial if there are programs which takes large amounts of stack at some point, but then shrink down to very little stack and continue for a reasonable amount of time.
From the 'when I was a lad' department... Thinking back to when Java transitioned to a garbage collector that could give memory back to the OS, we got some unexpected benefits. Consider a machine that's running a load of programs, launched from some q system e.g. LSF/condor. If they keep memory, the box, q scheduler or admins get unhappy. If I had £1 for each time our admins said "your 200 java apps are using 500m each!!!!" when I could see for sure that except for an initial memory burn during loading files in, only a few megs where resident. Magically, once Java could release heap, these grypes went away. Matthew
Thanks
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