Re: [Mono-list] How do I force a garbage collection / free a heap

2009-11-17 Thread Petit Eric
I would say, be carefull with GC.Collect() : http://go-mono.com/forums/#nabble-to26160492|a26160492 2009/11/17 Mike Christensen : > Thanks!  This is exactly what I needed.  I did some tests and with a > large database (probably the most data I'll ever have) I allocated > about 500 megs on the heap

Re: [Mono-list] How do I force a garbage collection / free a heap

2009-11-16 Thread Mike Christensen
Thanks! This is exactly what I needed. I did some tests and with a large database (probably the most data I'll ever have) I allocated about 500 megs on the heap. Once I null out my "temporary workspace", GC.Collect() takes about 30ms to run and my process goes back down to about 18 megs.. If I

Re: [Mono-list] How do I force a garbage collection / free a heap

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Howie
And note that GC.Collect() is only a recommendation to the runtime that now might be a good time to run the GC. The runtime is free to ignore this call if it so chooses. (PS Sorry about the top-post. Gmail mobile is not the best for lists.) On 11/15/09, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > On Sun, Nov

Re: [Mono-list] How do I force a garbage collection / free a heap

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Hutchinson
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > Hi all - > > I have a program that generates some results, but in order to do so it > must load a whole lotta stuff into memory for calculations.  When this > is done, I only need the results and not the data in memory.  This > data might

[Mono-list] How do I force a garbage collection / free a heap

2009-11-15 Thread Mike Christensen
Hi all - I have a program that generates some results, but in order to do so it must load a whole lotta stuff into memory for calculations. When this is done, I only need the results and not the data in memory. This data might be several hundred megs on the heap or more. When I'm done, I want t