Comment Re:Firefox is the most unstable program in common (Score 1) 602
I can pretty much guess where the problem is. The solution: deal with it, or say no to garbage collection.
See, virtual memory and garbage collection don't mix. The larger the reachable set, the larger the area of memory the garbage have to scan, which translates to frequent paging in and out. Once the size of memory to search exceeds (available physical memory)*gamma, there every page will be swapped every time the garbage collector runs.
If the garbage collector runs on a timer , and the timer is faulty after sleep/standy, it could call itself more often than it needs.
GTG.
See, virtual memory and garbage collection don't mix. The larger the reachable set, the larger the area of memory the garbage have to scan, which translates to frequent paging in and out. Once the size of memory to search exceeds (available physical memory)*gamma, there every page will be swapped every time the garbage collector runs.
If the garbage collector runs on a timer , and the timer is faulty after sleep/standy, it could call itself more often than it needs.
GTG.
