Use -V0 causes space to leak?
David Fox
ddssff at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 16:28:37 CEST 2011
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Neil Davies
<semanticphilosopher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have some long running (multi-gigabit, multi-cpu hour) programs and as
> part of trying to speed up I thought I would set the -V0 flag - when I did
> this there was a slow space leak that caused it to blow the heap.
>
> Anyone out there have an explanation? Is there some garbage collection thing
> associated with something that -V0 suppresses?
If you mean -v0, maybe this is not a leak but rather an indefinite
postponement of garbage collection because no results have been
forced?
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