about six weeks ago, i thought i found a memory leak in the Regular Expressions part of Mono, and i mailed a testcase to the mono list but Gonzalo said the problem didn't occur when he tried it. This was around the mono 1.0 beta2 timeframe iirc.
On Linux, i don't have that problem anymore, but i've recently managed to get my application working on Windows (with GTK#) but unfortunately it is leaking a lot of memory on Windows. I've tracked it down and it turns out that it's because my application uses regular expressions on strings a lot. with a lot i mean like almost continiously actually. If i comment out the line of code that checks for the regular expression, the memory usage is normal. If i let it execute the regular expression, and comment out the stuff that should be executed after that, i can already see the memory usage going up. This only happens on Windows, not on Linux. I've tried a lot of stuff to work around this problem, but i'm getting pretty desperate to be honest. I really have no clue what else i can try to avoid this problem. the following testcase illustrates the problem on Windows: using System; using System.Text; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using System.Threading; class MainClass { public static void Main(string[] args) { Match match; string strPattern = @"\w \w \w \w \w: \d"; for (long i=0;i<50000;i++) { string strTest = "This is a simple test: " + i.ToString() ; match = Regex.Match(strTest,strPattern); Console.WriteLine(i); Thread.Sleep(10); } } } if i run that on windows, and i watch the memory usage in the Task Manager, the memory just keeps going up. The longer it runs, the more memory it uses. i'm using the combined mono/gtk# installer for windows if that makes any difference. thanks _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list