Re: Winforms and memory usage

Hi,
Just a thought when profiling, allow sufficient time for the full
behaviour to be shown.
I went chasing a 'memory leak' where the Private bytes and Working Set
usage went up for several hours for no good reason I could see.
They finally levelled out then came down again. Then went up again
etc.
Took a couple of days of this wobbling behaviour before I accepted
that there was no leak.
Bob


On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:21:34 -0700, "Chris Mullins [MVP - C#]"
<cmullins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Having spent far, far too much time at this, I would recommend two products
over SOS:

- SciTech Memory Profiler is excellent. They have a 14 day free trial.
- RedGate ANTS Memory Profiler is also excellent. They also have a trial.

When I do seminars or mentoring on this, I always start with these products,
and only revert to Son of Strike and WinDbg as a very last resort. The
learning curve on SOS is brutal, and most devs won't ever get through it.

The learning curve for SciTech is about a day, and it's extremely powerfull.
Amazingly so.

The learning curve for ANTS is a few hours, but it's nowhere near as
powerfull as SciTech.
.

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