[Mono-list] Interrupting the garbage collector

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Oct-2002, Holger Arnold <harnold@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> a short question relating to the garbage collector: Assume that we have a 
> managed application using n threads T_1, ..., T_n. Let thread T_i trigger a 
> garbage collection. Which of the following assumptions are correct?
> 
> (1) All threads except T_i are stopped and the garbage collection runs in 
> thread T_i.

For Posix threads, this one is correct.

(However, if you use -DPARALLEL_MARK when building the Boehm collector,
then it will do parts of the garbage collection in parallel using
multiple threads.)

I don't know off-hand how Mono maps CLR threads to Posix threads,
though I'd guess it's most likely one-to-one.

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