GC does not release memory...memory keeps growing!!!

[Mahesh Prasad]

Hi,

I'm having a very very frustrating experience with the .NET. I've a simple
crawler console application.
The main objective of the crawler is to read a list of URLs and make HTTP
calls to a web server and save
the html files locally.

I had setup perfmon to monitor the memory usage of the application. I found
that the Gen 2 heap size keeps increasing
and ultimately the system runs out of memory. Whereas Gen 0 and Gen 1 heap
size is stable (it increases and decreases as GC runs).

I understand that the objects that have lived long enough are ultimately
promoted to Gen 2. But none of my objects have
that much state information to cause the Gen 2 heap to grow incessantly!!
I'm using many temporary objects like
HttpWebRequests, StringBuilder and Streams. But these objects live only as
long as the HTTP request lasts. I'm not
saving these objects as my class members.

I would appreciate if someone can throw some light on this strange
behaviour. I'm so frustrated that I'm planning to
re-write the code in C++.....atleast I'll have control over when the memory
is to be released.

Thanks in advance.

Mahesh

 

[Tom Wells]

Make sure you call Dispose on all objects that have a Dispose, same with
Close methods....