Stopping the GC thread?

[Steven Scholz]

David Woodhouse schrieb:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:12, Steven Scholz wrote:
> 
>>(How) Could I trigger the GC thread to test its impact on my 
>>application or the overall system performance?
>>Is there a signal I could sent to start a GC?
> 
> 
> No. You used to be able to trigger it by repeatedly sending it SIGHUP
> but that doesn't work any more. I keep intending to make the thresholds
> tunable in /proc though, which you could abuse to do what you want.
> 

So for now I just could hardcode the thresholds (ehm which BTW?) to 
some low value, recompile and test?

Steven