garbage collection in .net

[jzink]

what is the best performance monitor for me to add to check for the memory being used by my asp.net app

----- Jeremy wrote: ----

If I keep an eye on the memory being utilitized by the worker processe (via taskmgr) I see it start at around 30K and will grow to around 140k

Task Manager is not an exact way of monitering memory usage, if you watch i
for other programs under NT/2K/XP, you will see that much more memory i
allocated than is actually being used. You may want to consider usin
performance counters and the app test center

Will this memory continue to grow until the garbage collector deems tha the heap is full

Yes, see the .NET docs on garbage collection for a complete explaination o
how the GC grows, collects, and populates generations

Garbage Collector basics & performance
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en....asp?frame=tru

Programming the Garbage Collector
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ecollection.as
Is there something wrong with my code ( a memory leak of some problem )
Not likely. But no one could say for sure with out seeing the code

If I stress test the site 5 concurrent users running for over 2 hour pounding all the pages the memory only went up about 6k over the 2 hou
period
In Java I've used the heap analysis tool (HAT) to see the behavior of th

gc. Is there something similar in .net

Not that I know of. I did a search on google and MSDN, but found nothin
(althought, it was a short search)
Jerem

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[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

jzink wrote:

what is the best performance monitor for me to add to check for the
memory being used by my asp.net app ?

There was no way for you to know it, but this is a classic asp newsgroup.
While you may be lucky enough to find a dotnet-savvy person here who can
answer your question, you can eliminate the luck factor by posting your
question to an appropriate group. I suggest
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.

Bob Barrows

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