Re: long-term memory behaviour

[Peter Steiner <pst@...>]

Julian Moore wrote:
> On 6/23/07, Peter Steiner <pst@pnetz.org> wrote:
> > before i get my hands dirty with evaluation and testing, i would like to
> > ask of your experiences with long-term collector behaviour in LUA.
>
> Firstly, Lua isn't an acronym. Secondly, this is very dependent on
> your needs. If you need Lua to store data to disk and get it back
> later that's very possible, just write a (rather simple) method of
> converting your data to a string(or binary if you're feeling smart)
> and save the data to disk.
>
> If you mean keeping data stored as a variable in Lua, basically any
> non-weak table is going to be there unless you set it to nil.
>
> Of course I could be mis-interpreting your question ;)

thanks for your answer, but my question was concerning a different point:

i would like to know if the garbage collector of Lua is stable in the 
sense of memory usage over very long, and highly active, interpreter run 
times (i am talking in the magnitude of months) - from experience i know 
that many otherwise very mature interpreters suffer in this regard.

the popular reference applications like games etc. don't exercise long 
execution time, but my intended domain is in highly available server 
applications, where this is a given requirement.

i will stress test this behavior anyways, but i would like to know if 
others have experience in such applications of Lua...

regards,
peter.