[Haskell-cafe] Real-time garbage collection for Haskell

[John Van Enk]

Simon,

Would a more predictable GC or a faster GC be better in your case? (Of
course, both would be nice.)

/jve

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Simon Cranshaw <simon.cranshaw at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Pavel Perikov <perikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you really seen 100ms pauses?! I never did extensive research on this
>> but my numbers are rather in microseconds range (below 1ms). What causes
>> such a long garbage collection? Lots of allocated and long-living objects?
>>
>>
> I am using an automated options trading system written in Haskell.  I'm
> more on the business side than the technical side of the issues so I'm not
> clear on all the details.  I can confirm that without tweaking the RTS
> settings we were seeing over 100ms GC pauses.  I've mainly been trying to
> minimise our overall response time and we were able to improve this by
> increasing the allocation area with -A.  I think this brought GC well under
> 100ms.  We are still working on analysis of this.
>
> I can also confirm, as others seem to have found, that under 6.12 the
> parallel GC seemed to make things much worse. I am always turning it off
> with -qg.  If there is a project to improve performance of the GC I could be
> interested to contribute.
>
> Simon Cranshaw
>
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