[Haskell-cafe] Can a GC delay TCP connection formation?

[Gregory Collins]

GHC has a "stop the world" garbage collector, meaning that while major
GC is happening, the entire process must be halted. In my experience
GC pause times are typically low, but depending the heap residency
profile of your application (and the quantity of garbage being
produced by it), this may not be the case. If you have a hard
real-time requirement then a garbage-collected language may not be
appropriate for you.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Jeff Shaw <shawjef3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've run into an issue that makes me think that when the GHC GC runs while a
> Snap or Warp HTTP server is serving connections, the GC prevents or delays
> TCP connections from forming. My application requires that TCP connections
> form within a few tens of milliseconds. I'm wondering if anyone else has run
> into this issue, and if there are some GC flags that could help. I've tried
> a few, such as -H and -c, and haven't found anything to help. I'm using GHC
> 7.4.1.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
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