Because Mono does not support a collector like this, it uses a different kind, a conservative collector.
> //Example code > //On the NetFarmewort - all work fine > //On Mono - ~105MiB in the heap, after GC.Collect(). Expected ~5 MiB > //////////////// > using System; > using System.Collections.Generic; > using System.Text; > > namespace mono_gc_test > { > class Program > { > static object alloc100MB() > { > byte[] data = new byte[100 * 1024 * 1024]; > return data; > } > static void msg(string text, bool wait) > { > Console.WriteLine(text); > if (wait) > Console.ReadLine(); > } > static void Main(string[] args) > { > object data = null; > msg("Mono GC.Collect() realloc test.", false); > msg("Press ENTER to alloc 100MiB of data", true); > data = alloc100MB(); > msg("Press ENTER to GC.Collect()", true); > data = null; > GC.Collect(); > msg("Press ENTER to exit", true); > } > } > } _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list