01:08 <Nutssh> I'm looking for advice on tuning ocaml's garbage collector to reduce memory usage. I'm loading in 400mb of data and keeping two copies of it in RAM so usage *should* be 800mb. Its going up to 1.5gb which is 200mb more than I have available.

01:12 <whee> Nutssh: what happens if you force a collection?

01:12 <Nutssh> I'm about to try that.

01:13 <Nutssh> Last time that didn't seem to help much, and I'm not sure where is the right place to do it.

01:13 <whee> you could probably play with the gc settings to just have it not wait so long to collect

01:21 <Nutssh> Yeah. I'm trying that. It seems that space_overhead helps some.

02:05 <pattern> is there a memory profiler for ocaml?

02:10 <Lemmih> yeah ocamlprof.

02:12 <kinners> that's just an execution count profiler

02:12 <Lemmih> oh

02:17 <pattern> yeah, ocamlprof was the first thing i looked at

09:54 <Demitar> pattern, what you want to ensure is that your buffers are not referenced by a closure in there somewhere. And if you can, try to not use more than 800M in the first place by passing buffers around and blitting rather than copying etc.

16:02 <olczyk> I've built a toplevel, but when I start it from a directory other than the one I built it in, the modules I built in can't be loaded. Is there a way to specify extra directories to load libraries from?

16:03 <Banana> see option -I

16:04 <Banana> but did you add the proper .cmo and .cma when running ocamlmktop ?

16:07 <olczyk> Yeah, I did. But ( I'm guessing the toplevel wants the sma's in the same directory.

16:07 <olczyk> )_

16:08 <olczyk> The -I works. I didn't knwo it applied to a toplevel.

16:10 <olczyk> Thanks.

16:15 <Banana> olczyk: did you try the -custom flag ?

19:23 <pattern> new functional programming thread on slashdot - http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/03/12/221232.shtml?tid=126&tid=156&tid=188&tid=192

20:11 <yella> yeh seen it

21:31 <emu> are there ocaml debs for 3.07

21:32 <Smerdyakov> Sure. apt-get install ocaml if you're using testing or unstable.

21:33 <emu> for stable

21:33 <Smerdyakov> Ha. LOSER! :D

21:33 <emu> eh oh

21:33 <emu> i guess i'll ssh into my unstable box

21:33 <emu> annoying

21:34 <Smerdyakov> I don't know if anyone has made a package that runs in stable.

21:34 <Smerdyakov> I've never used ocaml with stable, so I've never looked.

21:36 <emu> know of any strange quoting or parser issues that might have cropped up between 3.06 and 3.07 (in the standard library/parser, not compiler)?

21:37 <Smerdyakov> There's a new operator in 3.07 for concatenating format strings.

21:38 <emu> ~ ?

21:38 <emu> where's the damn release notes

21:38 <Smerdyakov> ^^