I have a program with many forms which users are often opening and closing.
Now, I have noticed that after opening 10 different forms and the closing
them, memory consumption increases (eg. it has 25mb before opening 10 forms,
then while they are open it has 26mb, after closing it has 25.8mb)
After user is working for several hours, mem. usage jumpes to 70-100mb.
Should I manually clean up after form closes or does the garbage collector
clean everything?
(ie there is a lot of graphics loaded from outside on forms and maybe gc
does not dispose of them - entirely?) 4 1515
"Sput" <sp********@pos t.htnet.hr> wrote in
news:bu******** **@ls219.htnet. hr: Should I manually clean up after form closes or does the garbage collector clean everything? (ie there is a lot of graphics loaded from outside on forms and maybe gc does not dispose of them - entirely?)
There is no way to manaully clean up. Just make sure all your references are
set to null, or are dereferenced. The GC will take care of the rest.
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"Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <cp**@hower.org > wrote in message
news:Xn******** **********@127. 0.0.1... "Sput" <sp********@pos t.htnet.hr> wrote in news:bu******** **@ls219.htnet. hr: Should I manually clean up after form closes or does the garbage collector clean everything? (ie there is a lot of graphics loaded from outside on forms and maybe gc does not dispose of them - entirely?) There is no way to manaully clean up. Just make sure all your references
are set to null, or are dereferenced. The GC will take care of the rest.
Well, depending on what you are using, you really should be calling Dispose
on objects like Graphics and Image, that likely isn't the cause of the
memory issue however. You need to make sure you aren't maintaining
references to objects you no longer need(probably Image or Graphics
classes), a memory profiler will help here.
-- Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/ "Programmin g is an art form that fights back"
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"Sput" <sp********@pos t.htnet.hr> wrote in message news:<bu******* ***@ls219.htnet .hr>... I have a program with many forms which users are often opening and closing.
Now, I have noticed that after opening 10 different forms and the closing them, memory consumption increases (eg. it has 25mb before opening 10 forms, then while they are open it has 26mb, after closing it has 25.8mb)
After user is working for several hours, mem. usage jumpes to 70-100mb.
Should I manually clean up after form closes or does the garbage collector clean everything? (ie there is a lot of graphics loaded from outside on forms and maybe gc does not dispose of them - entirely?)
Garbage collector won't collect memory till it doesn't feel the need
of it. Internally, how that feel is decided, We don't know. If you
have lot's of ram and few programs running, it may not tend to free up
resources.
Few points:
- Just check if you are using destructurs in your forms or classes
Internally they get converted to Finalize method, and such classes
gets promoted to longer generation, remaining in memory for more time.
If it is so, try overriding Dispose method also, and call it when you
are done with resources.
- You can manually call GC.
As you are working with manual interaction, you must have plenty of
time, when much is not being done and you call GC as static method
System.GC.Colle ct();
System.GC.WaitF orPendingFinali zers();
Have a nice day
Manish Singh
Daniel, Chad and Sput,
When closing the form, you should be calling Dispose on the Form. This
should call dispose on the Form, and any control references it contains.
While you might not see a difference in the memory consumption (because the
object representation still might be around in .NET), you will properly
dispose of window handles that are no longer being used.
Hope this helps.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"Daniel O'Connell" <onyxkirx@--NOSPAM--comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. .. "Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <cp**@hower.org > wrote in message news:Xn******** **********@127. 0.0.1... "Sput" <sp********@pos t.htnet.hr> wrote in news:bu******** **@ls219.htnet. hr: Should I manually clean up after form closes or does the garbage collector clean everything? (ie there is a lot of graphics loaded from outside on forms and maybe
gc does not dispose of them - entirely?) There is no way to manaully clean up. Just make sure all your references are set to null, or are dereferenced. The GC will take care of the rest. Well, depending on what you are using, you really should be calling
Dispose on objects like Graphics and Image, that likely isn't the cause of the memory issue however. You need to make sure you aren't maintaining references to objects you no longer need(probably Image or Graphics classes), a memory profiler will help here.
-- Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/ "Programmin g is an art form that fights back"
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