aspnet_wp,exe

[S. Justin Gengo]

The .Net garbage collector runs at times and will free memory as necessary.
It has no logical pattern though. I wouldn't worry about it. It will take
care of itself. Here is an article that explains how it works:

[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconprogrammingessentialsforgarbagecollection.asp[/url]

--
S. Justin Gengo, MCP
Web Developer

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"Coder Coder" <coder5811@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Ive been testing my web app by running and watching the memory usage
> of aspnet_wp.exe in the task manager.
>
> Ive done a pretty good job of freeing memory and setting collections
> and their elements to null, however the memory usage keeps growing.
> The usage does not seem to come down at all.
>
> Is there anything I can do?
>
> - thanks

[Jim Cheshire]

Coder Coder,

I wouldn't rely on Task Manager to give you a good representation of memory
usage. You will have much better information if you set up some Perfmon
counters.

It is normal for the worker process to use a fair amount of memory. As
memory is needed the garbage collector will take care of it for you. You
have little control on when an object is GCd.

Hope that helps.

Jim Cheshire
Developer Support
ASP.NET
[email]jamesche@online.microsoft.com[/email]

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>Hi,
>
>Ive been testing my web app by running and watching the memory usage
>of aspnet_wp.exe in the task manager.
>
>Ive done a pretty good job of freeing memory and setting collections
>and their elements to null, however the memory usage keeps growing.
>The usage does not seem to come down at all.
>
>Is there anything I can do?
>
>- thanks
>