[Mono-dev] SGen improved and looking for testers

[Mark Probst]

Hi Jonathan,

> I did some tests with May 19th tarballs and I'm impressed to see that the
> memory usage in one of my test is a lot lower when using sgen compared to
> boehm.

That's good to hear!  We're getting similar reports from the Plastic SCM folks.

> Stability also seemed to be great until I got a segmentation fault.  Here's
> the call stack in case you can get something out of it:
>
> #0  0x081c2d12 in copy_object_no_checks (obj=0xf780fd98) at sgen-gc.c:2082

There's not too much I can make of this, unfortunately.  Does your
application use non-root appdomains?

Can I reproduce this myself somehow?  If not, would you be willing to
spend some time helping me figure out this bug?

Mark