[Mono-aspnet-list] Memory Leak in Generic Handler

[whale]

Niknak wrote
> .....
> Why does the memory consumed by the Mono process keep growing?
> 
> Mono currently uses a conservative, non-moving, non-compacting garbage
> collector. This means that the heap is not compacted when memory is
> released. This means that applications can produce memory allocation
> patterns that will effectively make the process grow, just like C, C++,
> Perl, Python applications would.
> .....
> ASP.NET in Mono is particularly vulnerable to this kind of memory problems
> because it is easy for developers to define APIs that transfer large blobs
> of data like entire image files, these would allocate a lot of memory that
> can easily be fragmented.
> ......
> Anyone else experienced this or have any work arounds?

I would suggest just using the SGEN garbage collector instead of the 'old'
Boehm one. You can force the Mono fastcgi-mono-server use the SGEN version
by using the MONO_OPTIONS environment variable.

Make sure the following line is present in whatever script inits your shell:

export MONO_ENV_OPTIONS="--gc=sgen"



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