>-----Original Message-----
>I hope that this the appropriate newsgroup for this
>posting.
>
>I have a problem with a C# program that accesses
eventlogs
>on various servers (read only) at our site. The program
>is in a continuous loop, so eventually will use up all
>available memory before crashing.
>
>I have condensed the code down to a snippet that I have
>included below.
>
>While running, the CLR allocates memory for the
>eventlogentries, but never seems to release the memory.
>GC never collects the memory, even if I call it
>explicitly. I even tried calling the close and dispose
>methods of the eventlog class, and setting the pointer to
>null.
>
>Using a memory profiler, I can see the following:
>- The instances are from System.Diagnostics
>- The instance names are EventLogEntry
>- The allocation stack is:
> - Class1.ProcessServerLog()
> - EventLogCollection.get_Item()
> - EventLog.GetEntryAt()
> - EventLog.GetEntryWithOldest()
>
>Am I programmatically forgetting to do something to
>release these entries? Or is there some sort of memory
>leak in the EventLog class that is not releasing memory
>allocated for the entry records?
>
>Thanks for any and all help.
>
>Bryan Hunt
>
>
>=========================================================
>using System;
>using System.Diagnostics;
>using System.Threading;
>
>
>namespace Test_Event_Log_Read___Console
>{
> // <summary>
> /// Summary description for Class1.
> /// </summary>
> class Class1
> {
> /// <summary>
> /// The main entry point for the application.
> /// </summary>
> [STAThread]
> static void Main(string[] args)
> {
> //
> // TODO: Add code to start application here
> //
> Class1 myClass1 = new Class1();
>
> while (true)
> {
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("Development","Application");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog("Development", "DNS
>Server");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("Development", "Security");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("Development", "System");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("ntwks", "Application");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("ntwks", "security");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("ntwks", "system");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("w2kserver", "Application");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog("w2kserver", "directory
>service");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog("w2kserver", "DNS
>Server");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog("w2kserver", "file
>replication service");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("w2kserver", "Security");
> myClass1.ProcessServerLog
>("w2kserver", "System");
>
> Thread.Sleep(90000);
> }
> }
>
>
> public void ProcessServerLog(string server, string
log)
> {
> EventLog svrLog = new EventLog();
> svrLog.MachineName = server;
> svrLog.Log = log;
>
> try
> {
> // Read entries from most-recent to oldest
> for (int i = svrLog.Entries.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
> {
> Console.WriteLine("Reading: {0}/{1} - entry
>number: {2}", server, log, i);
> }
> }
> catch (System.InvalidOperationException e)
> {
> Console.WriteLine(">>>>ERROR processing event log
>record: " + e.Message);
> }
>
> // Cleanup some objects
> svrLog.Close();
> svrLog = null;
> }
> }
>}
>
>.