Application Memory Usage

[Christo.Boysen]

Good afternoon all i am currently battling with memory usage of my
..NET applications. A simple form with 2 text boxes, 3 command buttons
use approx 8MB of RAM, though when compiled the exe is about 28KB. I
am developing solutions primarily for terminal server environments and
i cannot afford my applications to use this much memory. Can anybody
tell me why i am using so much RAM?

Kind Regards

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Good afternoon all i am currently battling with memory usage of my
.NET applications. A simple form with 2 text boxes, 3 command buttons
use approx 8MB of RAM, though when compiled the exe is about 28KB. I
am developing solutions primarily for terminal server environments and
i cannot afford my applications to use this much memory. Can anybody
tell me why i am using so much RAM?

..NET applications will typically load some huge libraries like
"System.Windows.Forms.dll" etc., and the CLR must be loaded too in order to
execute the application. The high memory usage is "typical" for .NET
applications.

 

[Mike McIntyre [MVP]]

Christo,

This article, "The Memory Mystery" may help:

http://getdotnetco.web101.discountasp.net/GdncStore/free/Articles/The Memory Mystery.htm

--
Mike

Mike McIntyre
Visual Basic MVP
www.getdotnetcode.com

 

[Guest]

Herfried, is it true that starting a second .net application will use a lot
less memory since the same code in memory is used for the .Net Framework
classes and CLR and only the variables of the classes, etc. are duplicated.