Memory leaks in dotnet are often misunderstood. from 5+ years of using
log4net, I sincerely doubt that's where your problem originates..
You're going to want to determine what (if anything) has a reference to the
memory in question. I'm not sure how easy that is to do in WinDBG, but
Redgate's Ants is what we use and it works well.
Chances are either:
1. The memory is no longer referenced, but has not been garbage collected
as of yet.
2. Some other part of your code is still referencing this memory, keeping
it alive.
We had a problem a few years back where the Debug Processes() bit within
dotnet had a confirmed (by Microsoft) leak.. but that was back in the 1.1
days..
Cheers,
Peter
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Jeff Patzner <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We are currently experiencing a reproducible memory leak in a C# .NET Web
> Service. When we analyze the memory using WinDBG, are are able to find loads
> and loads of strings containing the information that we are logging in our
> Web Service. So each time we write to the log, that string is stuck in the
> memory for our aspnet_wp process. We have verified this by dumping the
> actual string objects and finding the data that we logged.
>
> We have included below our configuration, our global.asax snippet, and also
> a snippet of our source code to demonstrate how we are utilizing log4net.
>
> ***Our configuration***
>
> <log4net>
>
> <appender name="AWD2FNLogger"
> type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender,log4net">
> <param name="File" value="c:\\AWD2FNLog.log" />
> <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
> <param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="20" />
> <!-- uncomment to set maximum file size limit <param name="MaximumFileSize"
> value="100MB" />-->
> <param name="RollingStyle" value="Date" />
> <param name="StaticLogFileName" value="false" />
> <param name="LockingModel" value="MinimalLock"/>
> <param name="DatePattern" value="MM-dd-yyyy"/>
>
> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout,log4net">
> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p - %m%n" />
> </layout>
>
> </appender>
>
> <!-- Setup the root category, add the appenders and set the default
> priority -->
>
> <root>
> <priority value="DEBUG" />
> <appender-ref ref="AWD2FNLogger" />
> </root>
>
> </log4net>
>
>
> ****Our Global.asax snippet*****
>
> <%@ Application Language="C#" %>
>
> <script runat="server">
>
> void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
> {
> // Code that runs on application startup
> log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();
>
> }
>
>
> ****our code snippet******
>
> using log4net;
> using log4net.Config;
>
>
> public class AWD2FN : System.Web.Services.WebService
> {
> private static readonly ILog mylog =
> LogManager.GetLogger("RollingLogFileAppender");
> public AWD2FN () {
> BasicConfigurator.Configure();
> }
> }
>
>
>
>
> [WebMethod]
> public FNReturn AddDocument(string FileLocation, FNProp[] Properties,
> string DocClass)
> {
>
> //create an instance of our helper class procs
> Procs myProcs = new Procs();
>
> //get the calling IP of the client so we can distinguish them
> string strCallingIP;
> strCallingIP = myReq.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"];
>
> //and the logging begins
> mylog.Info("Calling IP: " + strCallingIP + "; Entering AddDocument.
> FileLocation: " + FileLocation + ", DocClass: " + DocClass
> + ", Properties: \r\n" + myProcs.DumpProps(Properties).ToString() );
>
> //create a FNReturn object and a FNETAdd object
> //the constructor of the FNETAdd takes in all the parameters
> //the doAdd function returns a FNReturn object
> FNReturn fnrAdd;
> FNETAdd objAdd;
> fnrAdd = new FNReturn();
> objAdd = new FNETAdd(DocClass, FileLocation, Properties, fnuAWD2FN);
> fnrAdd = objAdd.DoAdd();
>
> if (fnrAdd.Status == "Success")
> {
> //we have successfully added the document
> mylog.Info("Calling IP: " + strCallingIP + "; Leaving AddDocument. Status:
> " + fnrAdd.Status + ", Value: " + fnrAdd.Value + " SessionID: " +
> fnrAdd.LogonID);
> }
> else
> {
> //adding of the document failed
> mylog.Error("Calling IP: " + strCallingIP + "; Leaving AddDocument. Status:
> " + fnrAdd.Status + ", Value: " + fnrAdd.Value + " SessionID: " +
> fnrAdd.LogonID);
> if (fnrAdd.LogonID != "")
> {
> //let's add this to the session management so this session can
> //be removed with the logoffall function call
> AddSession(fnuAWD2FN.superuser, fnrAdd.LogonID);
> }
>
> }
>
> return fnrAdd;
> }
>
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