General Problems for GC'ed Applications?

[Lionello Lunesu]

"Karen Lanrap" <karen at digitaldaemon.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns980F583A91B2Fdigitaldaemoncom at 63.105.9.61...
> I observed a nasty behaviour of the code I wrote for the contest
> mentioned in <e9p2qg$18j8$1 at digitaldaemon.com>: heavily paging.
>
> After detecting and eliminating the memory leak, which lowered the
> "high water mark" from 2.2GB to 1.8GB (my machine holds 2GB of main
> memory), that paging was gone.
>
> I was puzzled why this could happen although a GC is used.

I'm having the similar problems with the UM implementation. It runs slower 
and slower, memory use keeps growing and the scan keep taking longer and 
longer..

L.