[gclist] zillion objects

Nick Barnes Nick.Barnes@pobox.com
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:46:34 +0100


At 2001-08-24 16:25:31+0000, "Ji-Yong D. Chung" writes:
> Hi
> 
>     Thank you for your suggestions. 
> 
>     If I may summarize: part of your solution is to divide up the 
> oldest generation space into separate partitions and 
> perform collection on one or two of them at a time, using 
> remembered sets.  Andrew Chen also has suggested
> similar approach (though he did not spell this out as
> explicitly as you have).
> 
>     I like the simplicity of the solution.
> 
>     Perhaps I can try the LRU or MRU as criteria for 
> doing the collection over the partitioned old data.

Yes.  Your application may also be able to provide very strong
hints for choosing a partition to condemn.

Nick B