Hi Mitch and Jonathan, Ok, I just confirmed what both of you said. If I move the GC.Collect() call out of the function *and* I switch to 1.1 it works.
(memory drops to 60meg range) Am I SOL for reclaiming the memory under 1.0? Thanks, Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Heizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] releasing memory > I had this same problem a while back. I was reading in a 100MB+ file in a > program. I found that I had to call outside of the function that actually > used the ram. It doesn't want to release it within the same function. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave wanta > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 2:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] releasing memory > > Hi All, > I'm trying to get my app to release some memory, as it can grow quite large, > and throw an OutOfMemory exception. > > Here is a test example, the code is pretty small, but I'm reading a 35meg > file. > > Here's what the code looks like: > > > byte[] data = ReadFile( ...); //memory footprint is about 42megs > (taskman), which is acceptable > > chars = Encoding.ASCII.GetChars( data ); //jumps to 115meg --varies a few > meg depending upon the Encoding used. > > data = null; //still stays at 115meg > > GC.Collect(); > GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); > GC.Collect(); //memory is still at 115 meg. > > Is there any reason why the memory wouldn't have been released after calling > GC.Collect()? I'm assuming calling GC.Collect() would have released the > memory used by data. > > Thoughts? Comments? > > Thanks, > Dave > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com > =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
