Pike v8.0 release 1738

Method Debug.gc_status()


Method gc_status

mapping(string:int|float) gc_status()

Description

Get statistics from the garbage collector.

Returns

A mapping with the following content will be returned:

"num_objects" : int

Number of arrays, mappings, multisets, objects and programs.

"num_allocs" : int

Number of memory allocations since the last gc run.

"alloc_threshold" : int

Threshold for "num_allocs" when another automatic gc run is scheduled.

"projected_garbage" : float

Estimation of the current amount of garbage.

"objects_alloced" : int

Decaying average over the number of allocated objects between gc runs.

"objects_freed" : int

Decaying average over the number of freed objects in each gc run.

"last_garbage_ratio" : float

Garbage ratio in the last gc run.

"non_gc_time" : int

Decaying average over the interval between gc runs, measured in real time nanoseconds.

"gc_time" : int

Decaying average over the length of the gc runs, measured in real time nanoseconds.

"last_garbage_strategy" : string

The garbage accumulation goal that the gc aimed for when setting "alloc_threshold" in the last run. The value is either "garbage_ratio_low", "garbage_ratio_high" or "garbage_max_interval". The first two correspond to the gc parameters with the same names in Pike.gc_parameters, and the last is the minimum gc time limit specified through the "min_gc_time_ratio" parameter to Pike.gc_parameters.

"last_gc" : int

Time when the garbage-collector last ran.

"total_gc_cpu_time" : int

The total amount of CPU time that has been consumed in implicit GC runs, in nanoseconds. 0 on systems where Pike lacks support for CPU time measurement.

"total_gc_real_time" : int

The total amount of real time that has been spent in implicit GC runs, in nanoseconds.

See also

gc(), Pike.gc_parameters(), Pike.implicit_gc_real_time