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[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 12:42 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> btw, i suggested to GHC team auto-switching to compacting algorithm
> when program begins swapping. you can vote for this suggestion if it
> what you need ;)

That's much easier said than done. Automatically picking an optimal heap
size for the current machine VM pressure is not so easy. Most OSs do not
give any advice to apps on how much memory they can sensibly make use of
or even tell you in any sensible manner when they are starting to
thrash.

Duncan