Have you tried to use Allocation Profiler? You can download it from http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/filedetails.aspx?FileName=AllocationPr ofiler.zip Using this on an 8 way box shows the same figures as running on a single CPU box.
Willy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henk de Koning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [DOTNET] lock - how expensive is it to call? > Yeah. Those sizes surprised me. I'm running on a 2 processor box, using V1, > no service packs. Did the simple test, create a bunch of objects and print > out the address where they're located. No boxing, so I should see the real > sizes. > > Could have sworn last time I tested this, I got the same sort of results you > did. The only difference I can see is that I'm running on a MP box now. But > surely the number of processors shouldn't change the size of my objects ... > Maybe the sync stuff takes more space. I'm running a strange configuration > BTW because I have W2k Professional on a 2 processor box, meaning I don't > get mscorsrv.dll but let mscorwks.dll handle the syncing. > > -- Henkk > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.