ocaml/stdlib/gc.mli

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(* Objective Caml *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* Automatique. Distributed only by permission. *)
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(* $Id$ *)
(* Module [Gc]: memory management control and statistics *)
type stat = {
minor_words : int;
promoted_words : int;
major_words : int;
minor_collections : int;
major_collections : int;
heap_words : int;
heap_chunks : int;
live_words : int;
live_blocks : int;
free_words : int;
free_blocks : int;
largest_free : int;
fragments : int;
compactions : int
}
(* The memory management counters are returned in a [stat] record.
All the numbers are computed since the start of the program.
The fields of this record are:
- [minor_words] Number of words allocated in the minor heap.
- [promoted_words] Number of words allocated in the minor heap that
survived a minor collection and were moved to the major heap.
- [major_words] Number of words allocated in the major heap, including
the promoted words.
- [minor_collections] Number of minor collections.
- [major_collections] Number of major collection cycles, not counting
the current cycle.
- [heap_words] Total number of words in the major heap.
- [heap_chunks] Number of times the major heap size was increased.
- [live_words] Number of words of live data in the major heap, including
the header words.
- [live_blocks] Number of live objects in the major heap.
- [free_words] Number of words in the free list.
- [free_blocks] Number of objects in the free list.
- [largest_free] Size (in words) of the largest object in the free list.
- [fragments] Number of wasted words due to fragmentation. These are
1-words free blocks placed between two live objects. They
cannot be inserted in the free list, thus they are not available
for allocation.
- [compactions] Number of heap compactions.
The total amount of memory allocated by the program is (in words)
[minor_words + major_words - promoted_words]. Multiply by
the word size (4 on a 32-bit machine, 8 on a 64-bit machine) to get
the number of bytes.
*)
type control = {
mutable minor_heap_size : int;
mutable major_heap_increment : int;
mutable space_overhead : int;
mutable verbose : bool;
mutable max_overhead : int;
mutable stack_limit : int
}
(* The GC parameters are given as a [control] record. The fields are:
- [minor_heap_size] The size (in words) of the minor heap. Changing
this parameter will trigger a minor collection. Default: 32k.
- [major_heap_increment] The minimum number of words to add to the
major heap when increasing it. Default: 62k.
- [space_overhead] The major GC speed is computed from this parameter.
This is the memory that will be "wasted" because the GC does not
immediatly collect unreachable objects. It is expressed as a
percentage of the memory used for live data.
The GC will work more (use more CPU time and collect
objects more eagerly) if [space_overhead] is smaller.
The computation of the GC speed assumes that the amount
of live data is constant. Default: 42.
- [max_overhead] Heap compaction is triggered when the estimated amount
of free memory is more than [max_overhead] percent of the amount
of live data. If [max_overhead] is set to 0, heap
compaction is triggered at the end of each major GC cycle
(this last setting is intended for testing purposes only).
If [max_overhead >= 1000000], compaction is never triggered.
Default: 1000000.
- [verbose] This flag controls the GC messages on standard error output.
Default: false.
- [stack_limit] The maximum size of the stack (in words). This is only
relevant to the byte-code runtime, as the native code runtime
uses the operating system's stack. Default: 256k.
*)
external stat : unit -> stat = "gc_stat"
(* Return the current values of the memory management counters in a
[stat] record. *)
val print_stat : out_channel -> unit
(* Print the current values of the memory management counters (in
human-readable form) into the channel argument. *)
external get : unit -> control = "gc_get"
(* Return the current values of the GC parameters in a [control] record. *)
external set : control -> unit = "gc_set"
(* [set r] changes the GC parameters according to the [control] record [r].
The normal usage is:
[
let r = Gc.get () in (* Get the current parameters. *)
r.verbose <- true; (* Change some of them. *)
Gc.set r (* Set the new values. *)
]
*)
external minor : unit -> unit = "gc_minor"
(* Trigger a minor collection. *)
external major : unit -> unit = "gc_major"
(* Finish the current major collection cycle. *)
external full_major : unit -> unit = "gc_full_major"
(* Finish the current major collection cycle and perform a complete
new cycle. This will collect all currently unreachable objects. *)
external compact : unit -> unit = "gc_compaction";;
(* Perform a full major collection and compact the heap. Note that heap
compaction is a lengthy operation. *)