From: K Christine Scarpinatto
Subject: Garbage collection in ACL6.1
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:26:22 +0000
Message-ID: <xsq8z2qn30x.fsf@cirrus.gp.cs.cmu.edu>

Hello,

I have a question regarding garbage collection in ACL 6.1.  I am
running a an application with multiple processes on a WindowsNT
machine and was wondering who triggers garbage collection, and its
scope.  Does garbage collection happen within an individual thread, or
is it always global?  How does the decision to do a garbage collection
get made?

My second question is regarding sockets.  Do sockets in ACL have a
fixed size?  I ask because I am doing periodic flushes on my sockets,
but some older data that shouldn't be there still seems to be getting
through.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Chris Scarpinatto

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From: Espen Vestre
Subject: Re: Garbage collection in ACL6.1
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:31:32 +0000
Message-ID: <kwadn6dq1n.fsf@merced.netfonds.no>

K Christine Scarpinatto <·····@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> I have a question regarding garbage collection in ACL 6.1.  I am
> running a an application with multiple processes on a WindowsNT
> machine and was wondering who triggers garbage collection, and its
> scope.  Does garbage collection happen within an individual thread, or
> is it always global?  How does the decision to do a garbage collection
> get made?

RTFM. AFAIR the ACL documentation has a pretty good section on the GC.

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  (espen)