[Mono-osx] OS X builds and -DUSE-MUNMAP

[Allan Hsu]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Eoin Norris wrote:

> Does the absence of this flag mean that abolutely no memory will  
> ever be released. I can see my application increasing in size -  
> mostly the mono layers  which has the business logic - without  
> seeming to give anything back up.  The cocoa layers do ( I can see  
> memory being released when UIs elements are removed).
>
> Is this true even if we call the garbage collector directly in mono  
> - GC.Collect et al?

Yes. This is exactly what the current release builds of Mono do. When  
you call GC.Collect(), objects will be collected, but free pages on  
the managed heap are not returned to the OS. Instead, they are kept  
around for later use by managed objects. The -DUSE_MUNMAP define  
builds the GC with the ability  to periodically unmap unused pages  
and return them to the OS.

	-Allan
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