What's the go with the GC these days?

[welkam]

On Monday, 7 January 2019 at 06:52:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I've experienced a similar effect in Firefox, and though I 
> cannot say for sure it isn't a GC problem, I notice that it 
> causes a long spike of intensive I/O, and appears to be 
> correlated with occasional segfaults and signs of memory 
> corruption / memory leak, and generally happens only after 
> significant usage over a prolonged timeframe, generally ending 
> up in a state of extreme memory usage (several GBs in resident 
> set size for just a small number of persistent tabs) that reset 
> to more reasonable levels upon restarting and restoring exactly 
> the same tabs.
>
>
> T

this sound a lot like memory fragmentation
The Curse of External Fragmentation: Relocate or Bust!
http://ithare.com/the-curse-of-external-fragmentation-relocate-or-bust/