How to find memory leak

[Tosch]

I have an application that uses to COM objects and does a complex file
conversion between two different systems.
When converting a large amout of files I'm experiencing a memory leak
resulting in my application eating hundreds of MBs of memory and not
releasing it. This again results in a system being very unstable and
my application finally crashing.

What is the best way to figure out which component is eating up the
memory?
I have already tried to shut down COM components and releasing memory,
setting variables to nothing and all that.


Tosch

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Couple of suggestions. First get fxcop to check your code. It will
find alot of errors for you to fix. Second try a memory profiler like ANTS
from red-gate software maybe that will help to find the error.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/fxcop/

http://www.red-gate.com/code_profiling.htm

Ken
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I have an application that uses to COM objects and does a complex file
conversion between two different systems.
When converting a large amout of files I'm experiencing a memory leak
resulting in my application eating hundreds of MBs of memory and not
releasing it. This again results in a system being very unstable and
my application finally crashing.

What is the best way to figure out which component is eating up the
memory?
I have already tried to shut down COM components and releasing memory,
setting variables to nothing and all that.


Tosch