[Mono-list] Why mono GC does not realloc the heap after collect?

[Stifu]

Roman,

Just a quick heads up: you might be interested in testing the upcoming Mono
GC, SGen.

http://www.mono-project.com/Compacting_GC
http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/SGen-improved-and-looking-for-testers-tp1539030p1539030.html


Roman Procopie wrote:
> 
> 
> Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>> 
>> Because Mono does not support a collector like this, it uses a different
>> kind, a conservative collector.
>> 
> 
> What does this mean in simper words ?
> 
> On a similar topic:
> 
> I have a multithreaded server with sessions, each on its own thread.
> Upon session finish, it is cleaned, as proved by  heapshot.
> 
> However the amount of memory still sits at the same level.
> 
> In a production environment, the amount of RAM each session uses is quite
> big (there is a MIME encoder/decoder which eats something like 10x the
> size of the message and we receive 10M+ messages), which makes it a
> problem.
> 
> We have overcome this by running the session in a separate process. But
> from a code elegance point of view this is an ugly solution.
> 
> Question is : How can I get mono to either free GC-ed object's memory, or
> reuse it ?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 

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