Description
Macaulay2 uses the Hans Boehm garbage collector to reclaim unused memory. The function GCstats provides information about its status.
i1 : s = GCstats()
o1 = HashTable{don't expand => false }
finalize on demand => false
full freq => 19
GC_ALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS =>
GC_all_interior_pointers => 1
GC_BACKTRACES =>
GC_DISABLE_INCREMENTAL =>
GC_DONT_GC =>
GC_DUMP_REGULARLY =>
GC_ENABLE_INCREMENTAL =>
GC_FIND_LEAK =>
GC_FORCE_UNMAP_ON_GCOLLECT =>
GC_FREE_SPACE_DIVISOR =>
GC_free_space_divisor => 12
GC_FULL_FREQUENCY =>
GC_IGNORE_GCJ_INFO =>
GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE =>
GC_LARGE_ALLOC_WARN_INTERVAL => 1
GC_LOG_FILE =>
GC_LOOP_ON_ABORT =>
GC_MARKERS =>
GC_MAXIMUM_HEAP_SIZE =>
GC_NO_BLACKLIST_WARNING =>
GC_NPROCS =>
GC_PAUSE_TIME_TARGET =>
GC_PRINT_ADDRESS_MAP =>
GC_PRINT_BACK_HEIGHT =>
GC_PRINT_STATS =>
GC_PRINT_VERBOSE_STATS =>
GC_RETRY_SIGNALS, =>
GC_TRACE =>
GC_UNMAP_THRESHOLD =>
GC_USE_GETWRITEWATCH =>
heap size => 114536448
java finalization => false
max retries => 0
number of collections => 1043
parallel => false
time limit => 50
o1 : HashTable
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The value returned is a hash table, from which individual bits of information can be easily extracted, as follows.
i2 : s#"heap size"
o2 = 114536448
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The entries whose keys are upper case give the values of environment variables affecting the operation of the garbage collector that have been specified by the user.
For further information about the individual items in the table, we refer the user to the source code and documentation of the garbage collector.