Saturday, November 13, 2010

 

Determine if your .NET Application has a Memory Leak

You can use Perfmon to determine if your .NET application is leaking memory (managed or unmanaged).

Run Perfmon.exe and add these counters:

  • Process / Private bytes
  • .NET CLR Memory / # bytes in all heaps
  • .NET CLR LocksAndThreads / # of current logical threads

Run your application for a representative length of time and exercise its functionality.

If Private bytes is increasing but # bytes in all heaps is not, then unmanaged memory is leaking. If both both are increasing, then managed memory is leaking.  If the # of current logical threads is increasing beyond what you expect, then thread stacks are leaking.

If Private Bytes is periodically jumping in 1MB increments with a corresponding increase in # of current logical Threads, a thread stack leak is the likely cause.

[Tracking it down is another matter! For that, one of the commercially available tools is invaluable: Memprofiler, ANTS Memory Profiler, dotTrace]


# posted by Mitch Wheat @ 5:21 pm

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