[Mono-dev] why does DateTime.Now.IsDaylightSavingTime() returns false when it should be true.

2013-10-28 Thread Alistair Bush
I am trying to figure out why exactly running DateTime.Now.IsDaylightSavingTIme() returns false. I live in the Auckland/Pacific timezone and pretty much everywhere I look it confirms that yes it is daylight saving time. Jump to [1] if you want to see what my system looks like. I have been able

[Mono-dev] sgen optimizing

2013-10-28 Thread Greg Young
We have an application with a fairly common usage pattern. We send many messages in memory between a series of components (often with queues in the middle). In looking through sgen and defaults etc it would seem that by default there is a 4kb nursery. In this case we would have many of these small

Re: [Mono-dev] sgen optimizing

2013-10-28 Thread Greg Young
sorry for type meant 4mb not 4kb (that would be a really small nursery!) On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Greg Young gregoryyou...@gmail.com wrote: We have an application with a fairly common usage pattern. We send many messages in memory between a series of components (often with queues in

Re: [Mono-dev] why does DateTime.Now.IsDaylightSavingTime() returns false when it should be true.

2013-10-28 Thread Robert Jordan
On 28.10.2013 07:35, Alistair Bush wrote: I am trying to figure out why exactly running DateTime.Now.IsDaylightSavingTIme() returns false. I live in the Auckland/Pacific timezone and pretty much everywhere I look it confirms that yes it is daylight saving time. Unfortunately, I don't remember

Re: [Mono-dev] sgen optimizing

2013-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
Increasing the nursery size will reduce the amount of ephemeral garbage that gets promoted to the old generation. The downside of a larger nursery is the increased pause times for minor collections. Sgen has a separate nursery designed to reduce temporal garbage by making objects age in the

Re: [Mono-dev] sgen optimizing

2013-10-28 Thread Andrés G. Aragoneses
On 28/10/13 15:42, Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: The downside of a larger nursery is the increased pause times for minor collections. The concurrent-garbage-collector announced at the Mono 3.0 release would also be an alternative to avoid the pause times, right? If yes, is the

Re: [Mono-dev] sgen optimizing

2013-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Andrés G. Aragoneses kno...@gmail.comwrote: On 28/10/13 15:42, Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: The downside of a larger nursery is the increased pause times for minor collections. The concurrent-garbage-collector announced at the Mono 3.0 release would also be an

Re: [Mono-dev] why does DateTime.Now.IsDaylightSavingTime() returns false when it should be true.

2013-10-28 Thread Alistair Bush
Well that certainly sucks. On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Robert Jordan robe...@gmx.net wrote: On 28.10.2013 07:35, Alistair Bush wrote: I am trying to figure out why exactly running DateTime.Now.**IsDaylightSavingTIme() returns false. I live in the Auckland/Pacific timezone and pretty