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all groups > dotnet performance > april 2008

Apparent rougue process
Posted by Gary Watts at 4/30/2008 8:16:02 AM
During the course of today I have noticed a considerable degredation in system performance. On checking task manager I have found a process ("agent.exe") that is running and gradually using more and more memory. Having checked MSCONFIG this would not appear to be a start-up process. However,...more >>


Windows Service & System.Timers.Timer production issue...
Posted by Ollie Riches at 4/23/2008 9:28:00 AM
I'm looking into a production issue related to a windows service and System.Timers.Timer. The background is the windows service uses a System.Timers.Timer to periodically poll a directory location on a network for files and then copies these files to another location (on the network) AND then up...more >>

Garbage Collector eats 100% of CPU
Posted by brianberns@gmail.com at 4/22/2008 7:55:35 AM
I have written a C# program that builds a move tree for the game of Checkers. Such a move tree is naturally a very large data structure. When I run the program on a 64-bit machine with 8GB of RAM, the move tree (correctly) grows to several GB in size. What I expect to happen is that the tree k...more >>

GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of memory still exist?
Posted by DR at 4/15/2008 2:03:59 PM
GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of memory still exist? When all my processign is done i set everything to null and then: GC.Collect(); and then GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); but it still shows that my process takes 400 MB of memory. Is there any ea...more >>

How to read sequentially from a random point in a large Xml File. (200 - 2000 MB)
Posted by Schwartzberg at 4/3/2008 12:59:08 PM
Hello Have a huge XML file with multitudes of "LogEntry" nodes / text lines. A small sample of this xml/text content is below. The file could be anywhere between 200 to 2000 MB. My questions comes in two parts. (A) I would like a solution (or ideas for it), in C#, -- to randomly access ...more >>



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