Re: Memory usage problems

[Havoc Pennington <hp pobox com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Havoc Pennington <hp pobox com> wrote:
>> The simple solution (used in the litl shell) is to GC while idle.
>
> We call JS_MaybeGC().  However it's not really enough.

Doesn't MaybeGC only gc if memory has increased 1/3 since last GC?
since it has to increase 1/3 _not counting native objects_ ...

I think you have to plain GC, not maybe GC

>> I feel like this was already discussed in bugzilla or something for
>> gjs or gnome-shell but I don't remember where.
>
> See commit 45b550d6 in gjs, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640790

Ah yes, that's what I was thinking of.

Havoc