[Mono-devel-list] Limiting Memory Allocation

[Jim Purbrick]

--- Jim Purbrick <jimpurbrick at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I've got the allocation tracking working with the
> profiling API, can work out how much memory a script
> has allocated and throw an exception from there when
> the limit is reached (admitedly after the allocation
> which breaks the limit). Is there a way to track how
> much of a scripts memory is freed so I can work out
> the current allocated total for each script? I
> imagine this might be complicated by the GC.

It struck me that one way to trap memory freed by the
GC would be to make a call from the finalizer of
System.Object, which works fine.

All I need to do now is mark each object with the Id
of the currently running script when I see it
allocated, so I know which script to credit with the
object's memory when it's collected.

The problem is, when I add a field to System.Object to
store the Id of the allocated script, mcs crashes
seemingly because I'm adding a field to a class with
no base.

Admitedly it's a pretty esoteric bug, but it would be
nice to have it fixed so I can continue with my crazy
plan, which looks like it might just work.

Alternatively if anyone can see a less crazy way to
make this work, I'd love to hear about that too!

Cheers,

Jim.

Here's the stack trace:

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException:
Object reference not set to
an instance of an object
in <0x0001f>
Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer:FindBaseMemberWithSameName
(string,bool)
in <0x0004f> Mono.CSharp.FieldBase:CheckBase ()
in <0x000cf> Mono.CSharp.FieldMember:Define ()
in <0x0001f> Mono.CSharp.Field:Define ()
in <0x00073>
MemberCoreArrayList:DefineContainerMembers ()
in <0x00014>
Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer:DefineContainerMembers
(Mono.CSharp.TypeC
ontainer/MemberCoreArrayList)
in <0x00196> Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer:DoDefineMembers
()
in <0x0002a> Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer:DefineMembers
(Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer)

in <0x00042> Mono.CSharp.RootContext:PopulateCoreType
(Mono.CSharp.TypeContainer
,string)
in <0x00021>
Mono.CSharp.RootContext:BootCorlib_PopulateCoreTypes
()
in <0x00ace> Mono.CSharp.Driver:MainDriver (string[])
in <0x0000f> Mono.CSharp.Driver:Main (string[]) 

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