Re: Memory increasing even when in debug-break

Hi John ,

Thanks for your detailed information, it is very helpful.

After performing some search in our internal database, I found some records
reporting memory leak problems with using
RegQueryValueEx+HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA. Normally, Performance
API results in loading all the performance DLLs registered on the system to
get loaded in the process address space and call their initialization
function. There is a possibility that these DLL"s includes third party perf
dll's that can potentially leak memory. Some public available links are
listed below:
"Sample Code to Detect Performance Services That Leak Memory"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296794
"FIX: SQL Performance Counters May Cause Handle Leak in WinLogon Process"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249343

Anyway, I do not think we should borther to find out what DLL is
responsibile for the link. One workaround is performing your task without
using PDH APIs. I would recommend you to p/invoke(www.pinvoke.net is a good
resource, however, it may contain some small errors) ToolHelp Win32 API to
enumerate the processes list, below are 2 Win32 samples:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=187913
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=175030

If you have problem of doing the p/invoke stuff, please feel free to tell
me, thanks.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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