The copying collector needs about as much space to copy into as it allocates. Hence Racket keeps about 1GB free of the 2GB it is allocated. (This was certainly the old behaviour, but I thought it was made a bit less conservative so perhaps something else is going on.)
HTH, N. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Greg Hendershott <[email protected]> wrote: > Regardless, the DrRacket process never seems to exceed about 1,069,999 > bytes (Windows 7 64-bit). > > My understanding is that 32 bit processes on Win64 should get 2 GB (I > have 4 GB physical). So why is it maxing out at just under 1 GB? >... _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
