George, Given that PSAPI is part of the .Net Framework 1.0, 1.1 and I presume 2.0 as well, and this is a .Net list, then your argument is totally invalid.
I stand by my original post... That EmptyWorkingSet is indeed a correct and valid way of doing this. Dino -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George V. Reilly Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 21:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Visual Studio 2005 consumes ALL computer memory (RAM and virtual) SetProcessWorkingSetSize lives in kernel32.dll, a core Windows DLL. EmptyWorkingSet comes from psapi.dll, which is not present by default on older versions of Windows. -- /George V. Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. -- George Santayana (Get Witty Auto-Generated Signatures from http://SmartBee.org) Dean Cleaver wrote: > Phil has "one way" of doing it. EmptyWorkingSet actually only requires > a process handle, and automatically passes in -1 one for the next 2 > parameters for you. > > But if you really feel the need to pass the extra -1's then yes - > SetWorkingProcessSize is the better option for you. > > Dino > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George V. > Reilly > Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Visual Studio 2005 consumes ALL > computer memory (RAM and virtual) > > Phil has the right of it. SetProcessWorkingSetSize(hProcess, > (SIZE_T)-1, > (SIZE_T)-1) is a moderately well-known trick for making desktop apps > be better citizens. > > -- > /George V. Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog > > > > Wilson, Phil D wrote: > >> 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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