"pause" garbage collection in parallel code

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 14:39:50 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Stephan Schiffels"  wrote in message 
> news:mzlhbfypcihvyattaukr at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> This doesn't work for me, for some reason. I reserve via 
>> GC.reserve(4_000_000_000), ensured that it does return at 
>> least that amount, but the Garbage collector will still 
>> collect like crazy, long before that reserved memory is 
>> exhausted...
>
> That's strange, I must be missing something.  Hopefully one of 
> the GC experts can explain why this happens.

Perhaps the reserve pool is empty when the next collection runs 
and ends up being returned to the OS?