[Mono-devel-list] Garbage Collection problem

[Jörg Rosenkranz]

Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel at ximian.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:34 PM
> 
> Not really, because in the example you show, what happens is that
> Boehm's collector does unmap the pages.
> 
> Your criteria applies if allocation is just a simple "last byte
> requested from the OS", but in fact the way Unix works, and 
> the way the
> Boehm GC work, is that they can allocate individual pages in 
> the address
> space.  So when you have a hole in the memory like the first one you
> showed, it will release the memory.
> 
> Now, it will only do it if the whole page is free, if the 
> page contains
> data, it wont be able to do it, and since there is no compacting, it
> wont be able to move the data off.
> 

So the behaviour we get is clearly a bug and not 'by design'. When the 
majority of objects is collected there should be free pages to release.

Should I file a Bugzilla entry for this?

Jörg.