Re: Memory leak? Private Bytes/Virtual Bytes

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From: Pat [MSFT] (patfilot_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/08/05


Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:39:36 -0800

What you are describing is memory fragmentation; it is commonly caused by
small memory leaks. What OS are you running?
"Ronald" <w@n.com> wrote in message
news:GJWWd.306478$PH1.213941@amsnews05.chello.com...
> Hi!
>
> As I ran in to errors like "Ran out of memory" and "Out of memory" I
> supposed my website might have memoryleaks. To trace a potential memory
> leak I isolated the IIS process and monitored the 'Virtual Bytes' and
> 'Private Bytes' for a while.
>
> I noticed the private bytes stays 'low' all the time. Sometimes a bit up,
> sometimes a bit down. Virtual bytes also follows the same pattern for most
> times. But, sometimes it increases to almost 2gb en stays there.
>
> I've been reading for memory leaks an aggressive caching and stuff and was
> wondering when there is a memory leak. In short: what does it mean thet
> the amount of virtual bytes stays high? Is this probably due to caching
> or....?
>
> regards,
>
> Ronald
>



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