Session.Abandon()

[Guest]

I am trying to free up some memory by forcing a session.clear and a
session.abandon. When I startup the application, it starts at about 80,000
KB of memory in the aspnet_wp.exe. I am able to load a huge data table into
a session variable and watch my aspnet_wp.exe (w3wp.exe on 2003 server)
increase it's memory usage by about 70,000 KB to 150,000 KB. I then click a
Logout button, which uses Session.Clear and Session.Abandon. The memory
usage of the worker process remains at 150,000+ KB though. Shouldn't I see
it go down when my session ends, considering I just cleared out the Session
vars that included that huge datatable that caused the 70,000 KB increase?

 

[Alvin Bruney - ASP.NET MVP]

No, your memory will be released when there is a garbage collection.

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Regards,
Alvin Bruney [MVP ASP.NET]

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