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Memory Leak in ASP.NET

Hi all

I am not an ASP developer but I am in a support case for our customer who's experiencing resource problems that seems to be ASP.NET related. Basically our app is built on .NET Framework 1.1 and provides reporting Web UI. The problem is, when our customer schedules a reporting job, the memory usage by aspnet_wp.exe just start to jump in dozens of Megabytes. this situation seems to be compounded when customer schedules say, 10 simultaneous reporting jobs, in which case you will see the memory usages break the ceiling of 1GB at which point tasks start to fail and customer will have to restart IIS

Any idea what could be done to pin point the leak? What can I do to address the leak

BTW, I am using the nospam email address to indicate my MS subscription status. Did I do it right?
Nov 18 '05 #1
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"Xing" <xi**@community .nospam> wrote in message
news:5F******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi all,

I am not an ASP developer but I am in a support case for our customer who's experiencing resource problems that seems to be ASP.NET related.
Basically our app is built on .NET Framework 1.1 and provides reporting Web
UI. The problem is, when our customer schedules a reporting job, the memory
usage by aspnet_wp.exe just start to jump in dozens of Megabytes. this
situation seems to be compounded when customer schedules say, 10
simultaneous reporting jobs, in which case you will see the memory usages
break the ceiling of 1GB at which point tasks start to fail and customer
will have to restart IIS.
Any idea what could be done to pin point the leak? What can I do to address the leak?


It sounds like the application is designed to use large amounts of memory
for each reporting job. This must be addressed by the application
developer.

David
Nov 18 '05 #2
Thanks for the quick response! The process that's eating up the memory is the one from ASP.NET, aspnet_wp.exe. I agree that the memory issue must have to do with the way our app uses ASP.NET, or maybe it's a bug in ASP.NET. How do I go about and figure it out? Also, it would be OK if the process just needs huge amount of memory temporarily, but it doesn't release the memory after the reporting jobs, which makes the case a leak

Xing
Nov 18 '05 #3
Maybe a GC.Collect() needs to be called after the report is done
processing??
I've found that running a service that processes reports outside of the
aspnet_wp.exe really helps things out.

Michael

"Xing" <xi**@community .nospam> wrote in message
news:FA******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Thanks for the quick response! The process that's eating up the memory is the one from ASP.NET, aspnet_wp.exe. I agree that the memory issue must have
to do with the way our app uses ASP.NET, or maybe it's a bug in ASP.NET. How
do I go about and figure it out? Also, it would be OK if the process just
needs huge amount of memory temporarily, but it doesn't release the memory
after the reporting jobs, which makes the case a leak.
Xing

Nov 18 '05 #4
Which reporting tool you are using?
We have the same problems for our reports and we are using crystal reports
tool.
"Xing" <xi**@community .nospam> wrote in message
news:5F******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi all,

I am not an ASP developer but I am in a support case for our customer who's experiencing resource problems that seems to be ASP.NET related.
Basically our app is built on .NET Framework 1.1 and provides reporting Web
UI. The problem is, when our customer schedules a reporting job, the memory
usage by aspnet_wp.exe just start to jump in dozens of Megabytes. this
situation seems to be compounded when customer schedules say, 10
simultaneous reporting jobs, in which case you will see the memory usages
break the ceiling of 1GB at which point tasks start to fail and customer
will have to restart IIS.
Any idea what could be done to pin point the leak? What can I do to address the leak?
BTW, I am using the nospam email address to indicate my MS subscription

status. Did I do it right?
Nov 18 '05 #5
This sounds like it is coming from a COM component. If you're using any COM
components, you should implement a Finalize handler, and make sure they are
all released.

"Gibs" <do*********@ya hoo.com> wrote in message
news:OG******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..
Which reporting tool you are using?
We have the same problems for our reports and we are using crystal reports tool.
"Xing" <xi**@community .nospam> wrote in message
news:5F******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi all,

I am not an ASP developer but I am in a support case for our customer who's experiencing resource problems that seems to be ASP.NET related.
Basically our app is built on .NET Framework 1.1 and provides reporting

Web UI. The problem is, when our customer schedules a reporting job, the memory usage by aspnet_wp.exe just start to jump in dozens of Megabytes. this
situation seems to be compounded when customer schedules say, 10
simultaneous reporting jobs, in which case you will see the memory usages
break the ceiling of 1GB at which point tasks start to fail and customer
will have to restart IIS.

Any idea what could be done to pin point the leak? What can I do to

address the leak?

BTW, I am using the nospam email address to indicate my MS subscription

status. Did I do it right?

Nov 18 '05 #6
Also, check that your app is not doing lots of string concatonation without
using the stringbuilder class, concatonation without it can consume memory
and cause a memory leak. Its outlined in technet somewhere but I cant
recall the URL.

--
Regards

John Timney
Microsoft Regional Director
Microsoft MVP
"Michael Pearson" <mi************ ************@te levox.com> wrote in message
news:uj******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...
Maybe a GC.Collect() needs to be called after the report is done
processing??
I've found that running a service that processes reports outside of the
aspnet_wp.exe really helps things out.

Michael

"Xing" <xi**@community .nospam> wrote in message
news:FA******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Thanks for the quick response! The process that's eating up the memory
is the one from ASP.NET, aspnet_wp.exe. I agree that the memory issue must have to do with the way our app uses ASP.NET, or maybe it's a bug in ASP.NET. How do I go about and figure it out? Also, it would be OK if the process just
needs huge amount of memory temporarily, but it doesn't release the memory
after the reporting jobs, which makes the case a leak.

Xing


Nov 18 '05 #7
I had a similar issue with the aspnet_wp. Memeory was balooned too high and
the workers process was restarting.

I was using a 3rd party tool. So initially I did not know who to
blame--Microsoft or 3rd Party. After some investigative I found the 3rd
party control was eating up all the memory during some formatting calls and
I used an alternative approach to solve the memory problem.

The information provided here is too little to conclude. My suggestion would
be --identify the process/function/method that is chewing up the memory and
post the codes (or pseudo codes) in the group to get a better answer.

Prodip

"Xing" <xi**@community .nospam> wrote in message
news:5F******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi all,

I am not an ASP developer but I am in a support case for our customer who's experiencing resource problems that seems to be ASP.NET related.
Basically our app is built on .NET Framework 1.1 and provides reporting Web
UI. The problem is, when our customer schedules a reporting job, the memory
usage by aspnet_wp.exe just start to jump in dozens of Megabytes. this
situation seems to be compounded when customer schedules say, 10
simultaneous reporting jobs, in which case you will see the memory usages
break the ceiling of 1GB at which point tasks start to fail and customer
will have to restart IIS.
Any idea what could be done to pin point the leak? What can I do to address the leak?
BTW, I am using the nospam email address to indicate my MS subscription

status. Did I do it right?
Nov 18 '05 #8

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