[Oberon] garbage collector
Thomas Frey
frey at inf.ethz.ch
Tue May 20 16:58:05 CEST 2003
> Now sometime a mouse or key response delay of
> half a second occurs.
>
> I'm guessing that 'forced' GC is often causing the delay ?
Yes. Probably the Heap has become fragmented
> Is the heap off-on loaded to/from the hard drive ?
No, this is not done.
> I think the RAM is only 20 Mb.
> I did HyperDocs.ClearCache with no noticable improvement.
> Perhaps unloading unused modules ?
May help a little.
> Or is this done automatically ?
No. It can not be done automatically since the modules may contain a
state that is used later again. (--> Commands)
--Thomas
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