#!-sb-fluid
(declaim (inline dynamic-usage)) ; to reduce PROFILEd call overhead
-#!+(or cgc gencgc)
+#!+gencgc
(def-c-var-frob dynamic-usage "bytes_allocated")
-#!-(or cgc gencgc)
+#!-gencgc
(defun dynamic-usage ()
(the (unsigned-byte 32)
(- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::dynamic-space-free-pointer))
sb!vm:read-only-space-start))
(defun control-stack-usage ()
- #!-x86 (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap))
- sb!vm:control-stack-start)
- #!+x86 (- sb!vm:control-stack-end
- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap))))
+ #!-stack-grows-downward-not-upward
+ (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap))
+ sb!vm:control-stack-start)
+ #!+stack-grows-downward-not-upward
+ (- sb!vm:control-stack-end
+ (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap))))
(defun binding-stack-usage ()
(- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::binding-stack-pointer-sap))
(room-minimal-info)
(sb!vm:memory-usage :count-spaces '(:dynamic)
:print-spaces t
- :cutoff 0.05s0
+ :cutoff 0.05f0
:print-summary nil))
(defun room-maximal-info ()
;;;
;;; Unlike CMU CL, we don't export this variable. (There's no need to,
;;; since our BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS function is SETFable.)
-(defvar *bytes-consed-between-gcs* (* 4 (expt 10 6)))
+(defvar *bytes-consed-between-gcs*
+ #!+gencgc (* 4 (expt 10 6))
+ ;; Stop-and-copy GC is really really slow when used too often. CSR
+ ;; reported that even on his old 64 Mb SPARC, 20 Mb is much faster
+ ;; than 4 Mb when rebuilding SBCL ca. 0.7.1. For modern machines
+ ;; with >> 128 Mb memory, the optimum could be significantly more
+ ;; than this, but at least 20 Mb should be better than 4 Mb.
+ #!-gencgc (* 20 (expt 10 6)))
(declaim (type index *bytes-consed-between-gcs*))
;;;; GC hooks
;;; a limit to help catch programs which allocate too much memory,
;;; since a hard heap overflow is so hard to recover from
+;;;
+;;; FIXME: Like *GC-TRIGGER*, this variable (1) should probably be
+;;; denominated in a larger unit than bytes and (2) should probably be
+;;; renamed so that it's clear from the name what unit it's
+;;; denominated in.
(declaim (type (or unsigned-byte null) *soft-heap-limit*))
-(defvar *soft-heap-limit* nil)
+(defvar *soft-heap-limit*
+ ;; As long as *GC-TRIGGER* is DECLAIMed as INDEX, we know that
+ ;; MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM is a hard limit on how much memory can be
+ ;; allocated. (Not necessarily *the* hard limit, which is fairly
+ ;; likely something like a Unix per-process limit that we don't know
+ ;; about, but a hard limit anyway.) And this gives us a reasonable
+ ;; conservative default for the soft limit...
+ (- most-positive-fixnum
+ *bytes-consed-between-gcs*))
+
+;;;; The following specials are used to control when garbage
+;;;; collection occurs.
;;; When the dynamic usage increases beyond this amount, the system
;;; notes that a garbage collection needs to occur by setting
;;; *NEED-TO-COLLECT-GARBAGE* to T. It starts out as NIL meaning
;;; nobody has figured out what it should be yet.
-(defvar *gc-trigger* nil)
-
+;;;
+;;; FIXME: *GC-TRIGGER* seems to be denominated in bytes, not words.
+;;; And limiting it to INDEX is fairly reasonable in order to avoid
+;;; bignum arithmetic on every allocation, and to minimize the need
+;;; for thought about weird gotchas of the GC-control mechanism itself
+;;; consing as it operates. But as of sbcl-0.7.5, 512Mbytes of memory
+;;; costs $54.95 at Fry's in Dallas but cheap consumer 64-bit machines
+;;; are still over the horizon, so gratuitously limiting our heap size
+;;; to FIXNUM bytes seems fairly stupid. It'd be reasonable to
+;;; (1) allow arbitrary UNSIGNED-BYTE values of *GC-TRIGGER*, or
+;;; (2) redenominate this variable in words instead of bytes, postponing
+;;; the problem to heaps which exceed 50% of the machine's address
+;;; space, or even
+;;; (3) redemoninate this variable in CONS-sized two-word units,
+;;; allowing it to cover the entire memory space at the price of
+;;; possible loss of clarity.
+;;; (And whatever is done, it'd also be good to rename the variable so
+;;; that it's clear what unit it's denominated in.)
(declaim (type (or index null) *gc-trigger*))
-
-;;; On the X86, we store the GC trigger in a ``static'' symbol instead
-;;; of letting magic C code handle it. It gets initialized by the
-;;; startup code.
-#!+x86
-(defvar sb!vm::*internal-gc-trigger*)
-
-;;;; The following specials are used to control when garbage collection
-;;;; occurs.
+(defvar *gc-trigger* nil)
;;; When non-NIL, inhibits garbage collection.
(defvar *gc-inhibit*) ; initialized in cold init