Memory By Adding Some GC.COLLECT() Calls
Dec 10, 2009
I have a windows app (2.0 framework) that's about 860k in size, just a small db app with a couple of data entry screens and a few reports (Cystal) I noticed that when the app starts the mem usage according to task manager is ~11,000k viewing just one report jumps the mem usage to 56,000k. i thought i could reclaim some of that memory by adding some GC.COLLECT() callls, but no luck. Mem usage stays the same in task manager.
So I made an even smaller test app with two forms....Form1 has two buttons , button1 Opens Form2, and button 2 calls GC.COLLECT()
From 2 contains a datagridview and 1 button. The form load for form2 executes the fill for the dataset that populates the datagridview and the button on Form 2 closes the form.
Here's the code for each form....
CODE:
No matter what I've tried so far I cannot seem to reclaim mem that gets used.
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Jan 29, 2011
I have an application (i've been working on for a long time) that has many tabs and controls and quite a few components And a good deal of design code. And a list box that has around 100k items (i had to put a loader to pass the 3-4 seconds while its loading to prevent it from not-responding)I had a few Gc.collect calls in specific places (mostly after many items are added or removed). When my application loads, i call GC.collect only once at the end of the load. The program consumes around 35K memory by the time its loaded. However, i decided to mess around abit (don't worry i made backups)First i started putting gc.collect in some random places, and to my surprise the memory upon loading was observably decreasing. Then I went ahead and put a macro that puts GC.Collect before every End Sub, Exit Function, Exit Sub, and Return value, there is. Basically every block in my application had atleat one GC.Collect.
I fixed some 6 or 7 silly replace errors and compiled. When the program launched, the memory used at the end of launch was 21K!
At first glance that seemed great, but then i realized switching between tabs was VERY glitchy. and adding new lists took around 10x more time than usual (the loader stayed on for around 20 seconds!) And even though the memory looked good, the program was useless like this.Then i decided to mess around differently. I removed GC.Collect from the entire solution. It was no longer called even once.At first glance, when i launched the app it consumed just under 60K memory. That seemed terrible. However i realized something: even though my program in that state showed on taskmanager that it was consuming alot more memory than usual, it seemed like it was lighter than ever! Switching tabs was faster than before, especially every time i go to the tab that has the listbox control with 100k items. Loading items took around 3-4 seconds, but there was no stutter when the list finished loading whereas before it had an evident 0.3s stutter after the items were added.
This was all surprising to me because i thought GC.Collect was first of all, something that it doesnt matter where or how many times you call it. I thought it was just something that should be called at the end of work and i didnt think it would matter if it was called during work.Second of all, i thought GC.Collect only affected resources that are inaccessible, or resources my program is done with. How come the application feels faster when i don't call it?Third of all, i thought the VB CLR does most of the memory cleaning for me, and that GC.Collect was somewhat of a redundant command. It didn't seem so redundant to me at all considering the difference between using it heavily and not using it at all was around 38K in memory usage!
So i guess my questions are:
1) Do I need to call GC.Collect? WhereWhen do i call it?2) Why does calling it affect performance? And where does one draw the line between that memory stat on taskmanager and the program's performance?3) I also decided to run a small test. Why does a blank vb form application require 10K memory? How accurate is that stat shown on the task manager?
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Faulting application sapdkadm_procesoestandarejecucion.exe, version 1.0.0.0, stamp 4f908fef, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.2.3790.4480, stamp 49c51cdd, debug? 0, fault address 0x0000000000027ded.
The real problem is that when this happens my windows services restart
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is there any real advantage to run a GC.collect after that our application has used a large quantity of memory or it is just a psychological factor?
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code:
This code is creating a very large memory leak. After a few minutes of running, my application goes from a memory footprint of about 45,000 K to about 1,000,000 K. Quite the leak. I read some articles on the managed versus unmanaged memory etc, and I was careful to free the objects etc.
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[Code]....
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This is the Table Structure:
Usernames Points
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[code].....
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I am using the following code
This error occurs :
Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
Public Class FormRegEnumValue
[CODE]......................
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I get this exception:
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When I tried to download and install the above from Microsoft.com, the istaller said that "it was not allowsed" and I was not able to install the service pack 1.
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Here is the programs I have installed:
Operating system: Windows XP
Microsoft .net framework 1.1
Microsoft .NET framwork 1.1 Hotfix(KB928366)
Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2
[code]....
All the security updates and hotfixes for Widows XP.
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Public Function AddUserToGroup(ByVal sSamAccountName As String, ByVal sGroupName As String) As Boolean
Try
Dim returnStatus As Boolean = True[code]......
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[Code]....
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DeleteFileHour()
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[Code]....
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