in case anyone cares, i filed a bug for this: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62293
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:35:54 +0200, Davy Brion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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