Rewrite the garbage collector so to use a compacting algorithm (a MAJOR
effort with a lot of portability concerns). Were I still handling this, I
would answer this as "won't fix". I've spent many, many hours on trying
various tweaks on this situation and it is a hard problem to solve with out
some level of compaction.
The basic problem is every time it is necessary to expand the heap, you end
up with bits of storage that won't be large enough to satisfy future
requests. Eventually the process storage gets fragmented enough that the OS
is no longer able to find a contiguous piece of storage for further
expansion.
One thing I've toyed with is trying to find and return memory segments that
don't have any objects allocated. This has always proved to be be tricky
and did not really seem to help the situation.
Rick
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Erich Steinböck <erich.steinbo...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Rick, I've opened [bugs:#1465]
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1465/> which shows a (memory
> fragmentation?) issue with both String and MutableBuffer appends.
>
> Any ideas welcome if/how this can be fixed.
>
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