Memory Leak

Question

Dear Friends,

 Please I want to inquire what is memory leak is it means in .net CLR and how we can detect and track it.  

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asad

Answer 1

A memory leak is memory allocated by your program which is not released by your program.

Use performance profiling to monitor memory usage as your program runs.  If you see a constant climb in memory usage which never seems to lessen, then you likely have a leak.  Further investigation of the profile will typically reveal the source of the leak.

Note that this is a complex topic which cannot be reasonably covered in its entirety within a forum post.  Also the version of Visual Studio that you are using will impact the profiling tools that you have available.

This MSDN documentation may be a good place to start:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9z62c29.aspx

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Reed Kimble - "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all"

Answer 2

How to detect and avoid memory and resources leaks in .NET applications

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La vida loca

Answer 3

Be aware that .Net (managed code) was likewise Java created to avoid memory leaks which occurs with older program types (C++ unmanaged).

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