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Noel Welsh wrote at 12/30/2011 02:54 PM:
> Yes, GC pauses get annoying when the heap gets large. This can lead to
> timeouts on the client side.
>    

FWIW, we've talked in the past about GC and Web serving in general (not 
specific to the Racket Web Server; I was thinking of my SCGI library at 
the time).

Separate from any changes from GC research, if GC became a problem for 
my long-running Web app processes, there are options with the existing 
Racket version, including scheduling forces of GC cycles to when we 
think the process would otherwise be idle, making forced GC be part of 
load-balancing, and even periodically replacing a long-running process 
with a fresh one.

That last one would not apply if you're talking about keeping Web 
serving continuations in-core, of course, except as part of some smart 
load-balancing solution.

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