[Mono-list] My program randomly doesn't work with Mono

[Ted Milker]

Just an FYI but none of these crash on FreeBSD 6.2 running mono 1.2.3.1

Jonathan Gagnon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I too have different behaviors if I put a Console.WriteLine in my code.
> Consider the following example :
>
> static void Main(string[] args)
> {
>     int num = 5000000;
>     Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
>     for (int i = 0; i < num; ++i)
>     {
>         Object obj = new Object();
>         table.Add(obj, obj);
>     }
> }
>
> That crashes somewhere inside the for loop.  But if I add a WriteLine at the
> beginning like this :
>
> static void Main(string[] args)
> {
>     int num = 5000000;
>     Console.WriteLine("WriteLine");
>     Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
>     for (int i = 0; i < num; ++i)
>     {
>         Object obj = new Object();
>         table.Add(obj, obj);
>     }
> }
>
> Everything works fine.  Then if I add another WriteLine at the end followed
> by a Thread.Sleep, it crashes again, but this time inside the Thread.Sleep :
>
> static void Main(string[] args)
> {
>     int num = 5000000;
>     Console.WriteLine("WriteLine");
>     Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
>     for (int i = 0; i < num; ++i)
>     {
>         Object obj = new Object();
>         table.Add(obj, obj);
>     }
>     Console.WriteLine("WriteLine");
>     Thread.Sleep(10000);
> }
>
> Any modifications to that code may lead to different behaviors.  Sometimes I
> seem to end up being stuck in a infinite loop (with 2.8 gig of allocated
> virtual memory).  It seems like the size of the executable has an impact on
> the result...
>