ASP.NET - Detecting memory leaks

[ASP.Confused]

How would I go about detecting a memory leak? My web hosting provider has
our site set up to only have a root "bin" folder for .NET apps, and I would
like to be able to watch how much memory is being allocated for the entire
site (since the site acts as one big application.) Is there anyway to do
this through code?

The reason I ask is because occasionally, our site will start having session
state loss. After a day or two, it goes back to normal. My session
timeouts are 20 minutes, and I try to make sure that I properly
destroy/deallocate my variables (I also use GC.Collect heavily in my apps to
catch anything that I didn't notice.)

[bruce barker]

if you use 2003, you can setup a seperate pool for an application, and
monitor its memory usage. you can also download the win32 debugger and
instal the sos package. this will allow you to dump the gc.

you need to look for managed and unmanged leaks. managed leaks are generally
due to storing data in statics.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

"ASP.Confused" <anonymous@> wrote in message
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How would I go about detecting a memory leak? My web hosting provider has
our site set up to only have a root "bin" folder for .NET apps, and I would like to be able to watch how much memory is being allocated for the entire
site (since the site acts as one big application.) Is there anyway to do
this through code?

The reason I ask is because occasionally, our site will start having session state loss. After a day or two, it goes back to normal. My session
timeouts are 20 minutes, and I try to make sure that I properly
destroy/deallocate my variables (I also use GC.Collect heavily in my apps to catch anything that I didn't notice.)

[Marina]

I don't know about the memory leaks, but you are properly killing your
performance if you are calling GC.Collect all the time. Microsoft does not
recommend that you call this yourself - especially often.

"ASP.Confused" <anonymous@> wrote in message
news:en*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

How would I go about detecting a memory leak? My web hosting provider has
our site set up to only have a root "bin" folder for .NET apps, and I would like to be able to watch how much memory is being allocated for the entire
site (since the site acts as one big application.) Is there anyway to do
this through code?

The reason I ask is because occasionally, our site will start having session state loss. After a day or two, it goes back to normal. My session
timeouts are 20 minutes, and I try to make sure that I properly
destroy/deallocate my variables (I also use GC.Collect heavily in my apps to catch anything that I didn't notice.)