Re: ASP.NET memory management

Original message never seemed to appear so posting again.

Cheers, Rob.

"Rob Nicholson" <informed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:...
> We're developing our first large scale ASP.NET web application and I'm a
> little concerned over memory usage of aspnet_wp.exe on the development
> server during testing. The application appears to use a lot of memory and
> I've got the feeling that it's not all been released.
>
> Some initial questions:
>
> When a session times out, is ASP.NET/CLR supposed to release every
resource
> allocated during the session?
>
> Is there anyway to display what's happening on a IIS server when it's
> running an application? A log of some kind. Just memory per session would
be
> a start.
>
> Are there any configuration options around memory management of ASP.NET on
> IIS?
>
> Despite what I've heard, do you actually have to carry out manual disposal
> and memory collection. I've come from the VB6 world where the classic
> circular reference (Obj1 points to Obj2 and Obj2 points to Obj1) causes
both
> objects (and their children) to stay in memory even though Obj1 and Obj2
are
> both cleared to nothing. I currently believe the dream that CLR garbage
> collection does work. I hope I can carry on with this dream... Waking up
> into reality and having to implement cleanup code throughout the
application
> is more of a nightmare than a dream.
>
> Cheers, Rob.
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