I always thought it was SetProcessWorkingsetSize (process handle, -1, -1) ...... Same effect I'm thinking.
Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Cleaver Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Visual Studio 2005 consumes ALL computer memory (RAM and virtual) It's a very old Windows trick. Basically, all it's doing is calling "EmptyWorkingSet" on minimise - you can call those APIs yourself if you want to. I do in my projects, especially the ones that work on Terminal Services. [DllImport("psapi.dll", SetLastError=true)] private static extern int EmptyWorkingSet(IntPtr Process); Dino -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Georg Jansen Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 08:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Visual Studio 2005 consumes ALL computer memory (RAM and virtual) The same happens with Excel, maybe some new coding standard in Redmond...? btw: The wm size is not reduced much. Regards Georg www.l4ndash.com - Log4Net Dashboard -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vince P Sent: 24. januar 2006 20:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Visual Studio 2005 consumes ALL computer memory (RAM and virtual) I can't stop minimizing and restoring. It's crazy. > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Lerman > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Visual Studio 2005 consumes ALL > computer memory (RAM and virtual) > > Hey, what an insane but great trick. I was watching my own devenv hang > out at about 279,000 k and it just went down to 27K after minimizing. > > I'm still biting my tongue over the "just change everything to C#" > "solution".... > > julie lerman > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vince P > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Visual Studio 2005 consumes ALL > computer memory (RAM and virtual) > > That's a good trick.. I just did that and my memory consumption went > from 189MB of RAM to 17MB. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter > > Ritchie > > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:56 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Visual Studio 2005 consumes ALL > > computer memory (RAM and virtual) > > > > Try minimizing Visual Studio then restoring to see if the > memory usage > > goes now noticably when you find its memory usage to be high. > > > > > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:32:46 +0100, > =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Stanislav_Pe=BBko?= > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Hello all. > > > > > >I have a quite big probelm with Visual Studio 2005. I > > program in Visual > > >Basic and VS consumes all my memory, both RAM and virtual. > I monitor > > >devenv.exe process in Task Manager. When I start VS and load > > a solution > > >(it's not so big), it occupies aproximatly 130 MB of RAM and > > the same > > >amount of virtual memory. As I work, both of them goes up. > And I do > > >just simple things .. say I have 4 tabs with source code > > opened and I > > >edit one of them. Occupied memory raises and very soon (up > > to 1 hour) > > >the devenv.exe process has all RAM memory (I have 512 MB in > > system and > > >the process takes cca 350 MB) and even all virtual memory > > (about 1 GB). > > >I have to turn VS on and off, because otherwise it crashes. > > :-( I don't > > >need to say you that work is very slow and restarting VS > is annoying. > > > > > >At home I have the same problem with Visual Basic 2005 Express. > > > > > > > > >Did anybody encounter this problem? Thanks a lot for any response. > > > > > > > > > > > >Some technical info: > > > > > >Visual Studio: VS 2005 Professional Edition, Version 8.0.50727.42 > > >Framework: 2.0.50727 > > >Language: Visual Basic > > > > > >Hardware: AMD Sempron 2800+ (2 GHz), 512 MB RAM > > > > > > > > > > > >Stano > > > > > > > > >PS: Well. 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