Hubert FONGARNAND | 13 Oct 17:15

Mono 2.0 defeat story...

Hi,

    A week ago, i tried to upgrade my mono server from 1.2.6 to the new
2.0 mono version. Bad idea...
We use a custom CMS written in C#, it use to work well with 1.2.6
version.

We had test mono 2.0 on our beta platform since a month and we had no
big problems... But on production servers, the environnment is often
different (multi-processor systems, much more users...). I was confident
with mono 2.0 as it was supposed to be well tested by novell...

The upgrade was really a pain, because we have found at least two bugs
in mono :

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433908
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434305

These bugs prevent our CMS app to run correctly on mono... In addition
to these bugs we experienced a big memory leak with our mod-mono-server
(it use to take ~60Mb (RSS) with mono 1.2.6, with mono 2.0 it was
growing up to 3Go). So this week end we had some "out of memory"
crash... 
In addition to this memory leak, the website was slowing down... When i
start the mod-mono-server process, the web site speed is good
(~900ms/req) and it was 
getting worse and worse as time... (15s/req) 

This morning i downgrade to 1.9.1 in hope that it would solve my
problems... it solves the two first bugs problems (#433908, #434305);
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Re: [Mono-dev] Mono 2.0 defeat story...

Hi Hubert!

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 17:18 +0200, Hubert FONGARNAND wrote:
[...]
> The upgrade was really a pain, because we have found at least two bugs
> in mono :
> 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433908
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434305
> 
> These bugs prevent our CMS app to run correctly on mono... In addition
> to these bugs we experienced a big memory leak with our
> mod-mono-server  (it use to take ~60Mb (RSS) with mono 1.2.6, with
> mono 2.0 it was growing up to 3Go). So this week end we had some "out
> of memory" crash... 
> In addition to this memory leak, the website was slowing down... When
> i start the mod-mono-server process, the web site speed is good
> (~900ms/req) and it was getting worse and worse as time... (15s/req) 
[...]

Those bugs and the leak
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435263) have already been
addressed.

Let us know if you find any other problem and sorry for the
inconvenience.

-Gonzalo

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Stifu | 15 Oct 09:52
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Re: [Mono-dev] Mono 2.0 defeat story...


Hi Gonzalo,

Just out of curiosity, have automated tests been implemented to prevent such
regressions in the future?
If not, is this planned?

Thanks.
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Alan McGovern | 15 Oct 10:53

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono 2.0 defeat story...

Hi,

This may be of interest:

http://www.mono-project.com/Test_Suite

Any bug report with an attached NUnit test which replicates the issue is greatly appreciated. It is the fastest way to get the bug fixed and best way to ensure it doesn't re-occur.

Alan.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Stifu <stifu <at> free.fr> wrote:

Hi Gonzalo,

Just out of curiosity, have automated tests been implemented to prevent such
regressions in the future?
If not, is this planned?

Thanks.
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