Memory Clean Up

[Guest]

Dear All

Various applications leak memory producing bad operating system performance. Is there a way of clearing the contents of RAM from dotnet

Landley

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

How do you know they are leaking memory?
And what do you mean with bad OS performance, how do you measure OS
performance?

Willy.

 

[Guest]

Maybe "memory leak" was a bad term. If you, for example, open Microsoft Outlook and do nothing with anything on computer system. It slowly, but surely, uses more and more RAM for God knows what! I have seen this using an undisclosed software tool. There are other applications where I have seen this

The bad OS performance is a result of the 5MB RAM free from 512MB RAM due to these applications

Do you know of any API calls or namespaces where I can literally dump stuff from RAM if the source application is closed? It can be done, as I have seen something similar


----- Willy Denoyette [MVP] wrote: ----

How do you know they are leaking memory
And what do you mean with bad OS performance, how do you measure OS
performance

Willy

 

[Guest]

----- Landley wrote: ----

Maybe "memory leak" was a bad term. If you, for example, open Microsoft Outlook and do nothing with anything on computer system. It slowly, but surely, uses more and more RAM for God knows what! I have seen this using an undisclosed software tool. There are other applications where I have seen this

The bad OS performance is a result of the 5MB RAM free from 512MB RAM due to these applications

Do you know of any API calls or namespaces where I can literally dump stuff from RAM if the source application is closed? It can be done, as I have seen something similar



----- Willy Denoyette [MVP] wrote: ----

How do you know they are leaking memory
And what do you mean with bad OS performance, how do you measure OS
performance

Willy