[Mono-dev] set culture uses serialization?

[Steve Bjorg]

Zoltan, thx for response.

I can see how serialization applies to app domains, but why would it  
serialize inside the same app domain?  Isn't CultureInfo an immutable  
object?


- Steve

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


On Jan 3, 2008, at 6:49 AM, Zoltan Varga wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The current culture is shared between appdomains so the runtime  
> stores it in
> serialized form.
>
>                       Zoltan
>
> On Jan 3, 2008 8:21 AM, Steve Bjorg <steveb at mindtouch.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.I 
>> O.BinaryWriter,bool)
>> <0x0001f>
>>   at  
>> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.WriteObje 
>> ct
>> (System.IO.BinaryWriter,long,object) <0x0020d>
>>   at
>> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.WriteObje 
>> ctInstance
>> (System.IO.BinaryWriter,object,bool) <0x0014c>
>>   at
>> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.WriteQueu 
>> edObjects
>> (System.IO.BinaryWriter) <0x0002d>
>>   at
>> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.WriteObje 
>> ctGraph
>> (System.IO.BinaryWriter,object,System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Head 
>> er[])
>> <0x0003a>
>>   at
>> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serial 
>> ize
>> (System.IO.Stream,object,System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Header[])
>> <0x00206>
>> *  at
>> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serial 
>> ize
>> (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
>>
>> --------------
>> Steve G. Bjorg
>> http://wiki.mindtouch.com
>> http://wiki.opengarden.org
>>
>>
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