Progress on the Gilectomy

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>
>> not "aim for 400MB because the garbage collector is only 10%
>> efficient". Get yourself a better garbage collector. Employ Veolia or
>> something.
>
> It's about giving GC room (space- and timewise) to operate. Also, you
> don't want your memory consumption to hit the RAM ceiling even for a
> moment.

Again, if you'd said to *leave 10% room*, I would be inclined to
believe you (eg to use no more than 3.5ish gig when you have four
available), but not to leave 90% room.

ChrisA