gc-by-area and host uptimes

["David L. Andre" <DLA%jasper.scrc.symbolics.com@RELAY.CS.NET>]

    Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 10:46:31 +0200
    From: luria%sel.technion.ac.il@RELAY.CS.NET (Marc Luria)

    Could someone explain techniques for using gc-by-area
    do you do it to all areas, including "static ones"
    if not how do you choose?

Refer to the documentation for :Start GC :Immediately By-Area, which is a
new command in 7.2.

    what is this slow gc, and how slow is it?

SLOW-GC is a Symbolics-internal tool that was used in the development of
the Ivory GC and "operating system".  It is not a product, and it is
probably not what anyone suspects it is by looking at its name.