Hmm. That does look suspicious, doesn't it? I figured it would be
obvious. Thanks for the help.
Eric
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Anthony Francisco <a...@recombulator.net>
wrote:
> Ummm... You are using a memory appender.
>
> On October 19, 2015 2:53:20 PM Eric Wachsmann <e...@flex-radio.com> wrote:
>
>> While I am sure that it is a result of misconfiguration, I have a memory
>> leak issue while using log4net that I wondered if someone here could help
>> me resolve. We are using log4net to log serial data in our application to
>> a file. Because the calls for the serial port always come from the same
>> class, we are less interested in the class/function and more interested in
>> which COM port sent/received the data and what was in the data. As such,
>> we pass one logger object around to be used by multiple serial port.
>>
>> Running Regate ANTS memory profiler, it finds that the memory is piling
>> up in the form of strings that aren't released after calling the log4net
>> Debug function. If I comment the 2 calls to logger.Debug, the memory
>> becomes stable in the same environment. Can someone help me figure out
>> what I'm doing wrong here? Below is our config setup. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Eric Wachsmann
>>
>>
>> ==================
>> private ILog logger;
>>
>> private void LoggerSetup()
>> {
>> logger =
>> LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
>> Hierarchy hierarchy = (Hierarchy)LogManager.GetRepository();
>>
>> PatternLayout patternLayout = new PatternLayout();
>> //patternLayout.ConversionPattern = "%date [%thread] %-5level
>> %logger - %message%newline";
>> patternLayout.ConversionPattern = "%date{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}
>> %message%newline";
>> patternLayout.ActivateOptions();
>>
>> RollingFileAppender roller = new RollingFileAppender();
>> roller.AppendToFile = true;
>> roller.File =
>> Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData),
>> @"[company\LogFiles\[application].log");
>> roller.Layout = patternLayout;
>> roller.MaxSizeRollBackups = 5;
>> roller.MaximumFileSize = "5MB";
>> roller.RollingStyle = RollingFileAppender.RollingMode.Size;
>> roller.StaticLogFileName = true;
>> roller.ActivateOptions();
>> hierarchy.Root.AddAppender(roller);
>>
>> MemoryAppender memory = new MemoryAppender();
>> memory.ActivateOptions();
>> hierarchy.Root.AddAppender(memory);
>>
>> hierarchy.Root.Level = Level.All;
>> hierarchy.Configured = true;
>> }
>>
>
