GC options. Reply

[John Meacham]

I like the enviornment variable option, I would very much like to have
part of my log-in sequence parse the output of 'free' or some other real
memory reporting tool and set the limits as appropriate for the system I
happen to be on.
	John

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:54:25AM +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:
> S.D.Mechveliani (mechvel@math.botik.ru) wrote:
> 
> : > Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default?
> : > Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. 
> : > [..]
> : >	1. remove the default limit altogether
> : >	2. raise the default limit
> : >	3. no change
> : 
> : Put the default to  30M.
> 
> That seems to be on the low side.
> Obviously people's opinions will
> always differ.
> 
> Why not introduce environment
> variables to allow for people to
> set their own defauls settings?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Marc [still lurking] van Dongen
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