John Fine <johnsfine@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The internal garbage collector is influenced by physical ram use by > other processes? I guess I don't know for sure. It's definitely affected by the values returned by sysconf (_SC_PHYS_PAGES) and getrlimit ({RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA, RLIMIT_RSS}). I don't know whether those values are all independent of what other processes are doing at the time they are called. Ian