Jonathan Yu on Nostr: "Increasing memory pressure increases the amount of time it takes for the GC to run, ...

"Increasing memory pressure increases the amount of time it takes for the GC to run, and increases the cost of handling any given request, this increases per-request latency and reduces throughput, this increases the number of requests in flight (and their associated per-request memory), which increases memory pressure."

"[W]ith some collectors, the cost of performing a unit of work can increase by up to 70% as memory pressure increases."

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/08/14/gc-metastable.html by Marc Brooker (npub1tml…tztd)