[Mono-dev] Mono - CreateProcess error

[Honey, Steve]

Same here regarding the frequency of the invocations.  

My application makes the call once every 4 minutes or so.
I run 45 of these applications (each processing a different radar site)
and I start having problems after 8 hours of constant running.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Crowell [mailto:mono-devel at fluggo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:12 PM
To: Miguel de Icaza
Cc: Honey, Steve; mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Mono - CreateProcess error

Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> I wonder if you are calling too many processes in quick succession, so
> its just a matter of not enough time to clean up those handles/.

That's not the case. I've had long-running programs that would wait
several 
minutes between invocations, and they also suffer from this.

As I explain in the bug report, even creating a Process and failing to
call 
Dispose will not cause a problem by itself. Yes, there may be more
Process 
handles in the table at once, but the garbage collector is pretty quick
at 
cleaning them up, and the most I've seen in the table this way is maybe
twenty, 
a far cry from the table's limit of 4096.

No, the handle leak problem happens regardless of how the C# program
chooses to 
treat its resources. Disposing of the Process object will clean up most
handles 
instantly, but regardless of whether you call Dispose, some handles will
be 
leaked. And if your program runs for a long time, it will eventually
hang the 
Mono process.

--Brian