On 27/02/2012 17:34, Johan Tibell wrote:
Hi Simon,
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Simon Marlow<[email protected]> wrote:
"Think of -Hsize as a variable -A option. It says: I want to use at least
size bytes, so use whatever is left over to increase the -A value."
Doesn't that describe exactly what it means?
Maybe. Let me start with the mental model I approach this with: the
allocation area (i.e. the nursery) should have a size in the order of
megabytes, often around the size of the L2 cache.
Ah, so I see where your confusion arises - this assumption is not true
in general. Just discard the assumption, and I think everything will
make more sense.
Picking a size for -A around the L2 cache is often a good idea, but not
always. GHC defaults to -A512K, but programs that benefit from much
larger sizes are quite common. For more about the tradeoff, see my SO
answer here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3171922/ghcs-rts-options-for-garbage-collection/3172704#3172704
Given this model, I read the above as:
* if you set e.g. -H1G, you'll get an allocation area which is in the
order of 1Gb large. That makes no sense to me.
Right - see above. In fact there's no problem with a 1GB nursery.
* The suggested size of the total heap (-H) has something to do with
the size of the allocation area (-A). This makes no sense to me
either.
>
So either I do understand what -H does, but it makes no sense to me,
or I don't understand what -H does, but what it does makes sense.
Perhaps the confusion lies in the phrase "left over." Left over from what?
Left over after the memory required by the non-nursery parts of the heap
has been deducted.
Cheers,
Simon
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