[Mono-dev] set culture uses serialization?

[Steve Bjorg]

I ran into the following error today on our system (note: I truncated  
the stack for legibility).  The interesting part is in bold (prefixed  
by * in case the formatting got lost)

Too many heap sections: Increase MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS
Stacktrace:
   at (wrapper managed-to-native)  
System.Object.__icall_wrapper_mono_array_new_specific (intptr,int)  
<0x00004>
   at (wrapper managed-to-native)  
System.Object.__icall_wrapper_mono_array_new_specific (intptr,int)  
<0xffffffff>
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.set_Capacity (int) <0x0004c>
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.Write (byte[],int,int) <0x0007a>
   at System.IO.BinaryWriter.Write (string) <0x000c8>
   at GregorianCalendar__TypeMetadata.WriteTypeData  
(System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter,System.IO.B 
inaryWriter,bool) <0x0001f>
   at  
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.WriteObject  
(System.IO.BinaryWriter,long,object) <0x0020d>
   at  
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.WriteObjectI 
nstance (System.IO.BinaryWriter,object,bool) <0x0014c>
   at  
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.WriteQueuedO 
bjects (System.IO.BinaryWriter) <0x0002d>
   at  
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.WriteObjectG 
raph  
(System.IO.BinaryWriter,object,System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Header[ 
]) <0x0003a>
   at  
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize 
  (System.IO.Stream,object,System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Header 
[]) <0x00206>
*  at  
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize 
  (System.IO.Stream,object) <0x00015>
*  at System.Threading.Thread.set_CurrentUICulture  
(System.Globalization.CultureInfo) <0x00056>
   at MindTouch.Dream.Task.Execute  
(System.VoidHandler,MindTouch.Dream.TaskBehavior) <0x00093>

The odd thing is that it appears setting the culture invokes the  
serializer!?!  Our async execution framework sets the culture for all  
asynchronous operations.  Question is, why is it using serialization  
though?  Can I avoid this somehow and still set the culture?  Thx.


- Steve

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Steve G. Bjorg
http://wiki.mindtouch.com
http://wiki.opengarden.org


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