I've been tracking epiktistes inbox/outbox traffic and memory statistics (as reported by the Boehm garbage collector) for a while. There's always a consistent increase in both heap size and free memory—to the point where reported free memory is greater than the originally allocated heap—though the difference between the two doesn't appear constant over time. At the moment, heap seems to have plateaued but (pessimistically) I don't expect it to remain flat.

Given relatively flat traffic, the growth in free memory is surprising. I haven't had a chance to investigate, but based on what I understand about Boehm the increase in free memory could be due to increased fragmentation, and the growing difference between heap and free memory could be due to the conservative nature of the garbage collection algorithm.

Or there could be legitimate memory leaks. I did find one, months ago, which was the result of caching SQL prepared statements (in a Hash) and poor practice constructing queries in a couple places, which led to nearly linear growth in cached statements. The difference then was that heap growth was much more consistent, which is not what I see here, now.

#ktistec #crystallang

saturn is one of my favorite coffee shops (and music venues) anywhere. you’ve got your 8-bit (and 16-bit) consoles, old circuit boards for decor, and great coffee!

#coffee #birmingham-al

chat gpt straight up cheats at tic tac toe!

#chatgpt #tictactoe

i caught this out of the corner of my eye on a screen at the coffeeshop this morning, and thought "is that brent spiner?!?"

it turns out he played the hard-luck character bob wheeler on several episodes of night court before playing the character data on star trek the next generation.

#til