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useful to trigger gc in userspace?

useful to trigger gc in userspace?

Posted Jan 7, 2013 12:30 UTC (Mon) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: useful to trigger gc in userspace? by ahornby
Parent article: The mempressure control group proposal

Yes, and hopefully it could be used to make application with GCs much better "good citizens" on a shared computer, see "Garbage Collection Without Paging" (their Linux patch was rejected)
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2391


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