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Tweak GC settings in pipeline config

Adam Hegyi requested to merge tweak-gc-settings-in-ci into master

What does this MR do?

This MR sets a few Ruby GC env variables in order to speed up the CI suite time a bit.

Settings:

ENV_VAR description note
RUBY_GC_HEAP_INIT_SLOTS Initial allocation slots. Introduced in Ruby 2.1, default: 10000. Less allocations on boot if increased
RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT The initial limit of young generation allocation from the malloc-family. GC will start when this limit is reached. Default: 16MB Increasing this value reduces the number of GC runs
RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT_MAX The maximum limit of young generation allocation from malloc before GC starts. Prevents excessive malloc growth due to RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT_GROWTH_FACTOR. Introduced in Ruby 2.1, default: 32MB. 2 x RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT
RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT_GROWTH_FACTOR Increases the limit of young generation malloc calls, reducing GC frequency but increasing malloc growth until RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT_MAX is reached. Introduced in Ruby 2.1, default: 1.4, minimum: 1.0 (no growth)
RUBY_GC_HEAP_OLDOBJECT_LIMIT_FACTOR Perform a full GC when the number of old objects is more than R * N, where R is this factor and N is the number of old objects after the 3 last full GC. Introduced in Ruby 2.1.1, default: 2.0 Defer full GC if increased
RUBY_GC_OLDMALLOC_LIMIT The initial limit of old generation allocation from malloc, a full GC will start when this limit is reached. Introduced in Ruby 2.1, default: 16MB
RUBY_GC_OLDMALLOC_LIMIT_MAX The maximum limit of old generation allocation from malloc before a full GC starts. Prevents excessive malloc growth due to RUBY_GC_OLDMALLOC_LIMIT_GROWTH_FACTOR. Introduced in Ruby 2.1, default: 128MB

Source: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/man/ruby.1

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