Re: [MirageOS-devel] Memory exhaustion in Mirage

[Masoud Koleini <masoud.koleini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it possible to deallocate an Io_page after packet is send, not to 
wait for GC?
On 16/12/14 23:45, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 16 Dec 2014, at 15:23, Masoud Koleini <masoud.koleini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > I am wondering if the following issue is already addressed:
> >
> > https://github.com/mirage/mirage-tcpip/issues/33
> >
> > https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/cl-mirage/2013-August/msg00104.html
> It probably still happens at 64MB of RAM -- it requires some code to adjust
> the GC parameters in the OCaml runtime to trigger a collection more often.
> It should be harmless however, since (as the bug report observes), a failure
> to allocate an Io_page results in a GC compaction that frees up memory so
> that the allocation eventually succeeds.
>
> Any particular reason for asking -- is the bug affecting your switch somehow?
>
> -anil




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