[Mono-dev] 2.6 preview 1

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
The first preview build of 2.6 has been published to http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/download-preview/ The windows installer in this build is known to contain a number of problems, including but not limited to: * Has an older build (2.4.x) of gluezilla * Does not contain mono-tools (mon

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with GC due to libgc

2009-09-30 Thread Dick Porter
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 10:24 +0200, David Suarez wrote: > Hi Zoltan, > > Let me point some data from our tests to the discussion. > Those blocks up to 100Mb are actually "leaked" I'm afraid. If you do > again the same operation in the sample (allocate 2.5GB), your virt > memory will again go up

Re: [Mono-dev] Garbage collection breaks Oracle client

2009-09-30 Thread Veerapuram Varadhan
Hi Warren, Attached patch works fine for the test program. Can you apply this patch and try once? If things go fine, would you mind filing a bug - so that I can commit the patch to other branches as well. TIA, V. Varadhan On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 15:05 +0100, warren.puziew...@realtimeworlds.com

Re: [Mono-dev] Will a Mono 2.6 build for OS X become available in the preview ?

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
It is my privilege to again apologize for the delay in the release of 2.6 preview 1. There have been many build issues to work through. The first preview of a new version is probably always hard like this. I have hopes for a release today but in light of recent hurdles I have less confidence

[Mono-dev] Garbage collection breaks Oracle client

2009-09-30 Thread warren.puziewicz
Hello, We are building an application on Mono with an Oracle database. We are currently using Mono 2.5 built from source in June. We recently started testing the most recent build from source, and have discovered an issue between garbage collection and the Oracle client. After a number o

[Mono-dev] WCF status Sep. 2009

2009-09-30 Thread Atsushi Eno
Hello, I'm sort of routinely posting WCF status updates here. This month, the outcomes are not much so far, though: - Rework on RESTful binding (System.ServiceModel.Web). JSON-based Web binding stack is updated to work like .NET 3.5 SP1. - Lots of HTTP channel listener stabiliz

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with GC due to libgc

2009-09-30 Thread David Suarez
Hi Zoltan, Let me point some data from our tests to the discussion. I think it's not so normal, if you allocate 2.5GB of arrays, after 10 gcs you'd have 2.5GB virtual, but RSS should go down to a few mb (10, 20) if gc works fine. This is because GC removes all permissions from all the "big" b

Re: [Mono-dev] Will a Mono 2.6 build for OS X become available in the preview ?

2009-09-30 Thread Stifu
All I can tell you is that Mono 2.6 Preview 1 should be out soon, so you may want to wait for it. Whenever it's out, it should be available from here: http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/download-preview/ Ayk_161 wrote: > > Hi all, > > First off - thanks for Mono ! It is because of Mono T

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with GC due to libgc

2009-09-30 Thread pablosantosl...@terra.es
Is it a 64bits machine? If so, the same is true for us. But, with 32 bits mono, we can consistently repeat the issue. I can set up a gotomeeting and show you how it happens. pablo Zoltan Varga wrote: > Hi, > > On my machine, after the allocation of the 2.5GB of arrays + 10 gcs, > th