Re: Stumped: What Garbage Collector?

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From: Alvin Bruney [MVP] (vapor)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:03:41 -0500

are you manipulating very large datasets?
what are you doing that is taking so much memory? 

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Alvin Bruney
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"Billg_sd" <Billgsd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> This n-tier .Net 1.1 WinForms app I'm working on starts at about 37 MB on
> startup, As I use the app:
>
> view crystal reports, perform queries, load various forms
>
> it grows to over 250MB!  It eventionally becomes so slow & unresponsive 
> (due
> to thrashing) that you have to exit the app & restart.  Even when I
> deliberately call System.GC.Collect(), I recoup about 1MB RAM.  This is
> unacceptable.
>
> Furthermore,  90% of the used memory  should be reclaimable since:
>
> 1) I'm back to the sign-on screen
> 2) all forms have been closed
> 3) all ADO.NET, SqlClient & related objects have gone out of scope.
>
> Why can't I reclaim memory?
>
> --Billg_sd
>
>
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