Re: Large Memory Footprint for Simple .NET Apps

From: Tom (junkmale48_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: 22 Aug 2004 09:58:42 -0700

Thats my question! What is it?! How would I find out. I am looking at
the Task Manager. The GC only reports about 84k of allocations. The
Win32 Equlivalant of this program would be less than a Meg. My theory
is it is all the memory of having the Assemblies loaded in memory.

"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <willy.denoyette@pandora.be> wrote in message news:<#UJCGMvhEHA.140@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> And what exactly is the 23MB footprint? What Memory counters are you looking
> at?
>
> Willy.
>
>
> "Tom" <junkmale48@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:63d1c9f0.0408200828.5d8cf14b@posting.google.com...
> > We have a VERY simple .NET C# Form Application, that has about a 23MB
> > Memory Footprint. It starts a window runs a process and does a regular
> > expression. I have done a GC.Collect to make sure that, no memory is
> > lying around. GC reports only 84k of allocations. Starting 5-10 of
> > this apps is going to start taking a considerable amount of memory. Is
> > there a way to reduce this?
> >
> > Tom

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