[Mono-devel-list] Mono using Huge amounts of resources?

[Gonzalo Paniagua Javier]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 22:54 -0600, Colt Majkrzak wrote:
> Hello everyone, I've recently run into a very strange problem.  I have
> code snip that I ported from php to C# (using mono).  This code use to
> work great, but somewhere through the software upgrades to apache and
> mono, something is a miss.  I can write a php script that system("mono
> file.exe"); and run it from the linux shell, and it works perfectly. 
> Now if I attempt to access the same file from over apache serving it,
> use both 3ghz cpus and lag the box completely to nothing for about
> 60-120seconds.  The C# code basically opens a tcp connection, sends a
> few lines, and reads a response.  In the code its designed to time out
> rather quickly if it doesn't receieve data back in a timely manner. 
> The only difference between me running it from the console, and from
> apache, is when im running from the console, im running it as root, or
> another user, but from over apache its being ran as 'nobody'.
> Other then that im rather confused to what might be causing the
> problem, but I defently can't have the huge resources its using.  Any
> help/ideas/suggestion are welcome.  Please help! Many Thanks!

Try 'su nobody' and then run the program. May be that way you'll get
some hint on what's happening under the hood.

-Gonzalo