Memory Leaks

[Patrick Long]

After loading up .NET IDE and the Integrated Help and using it for a around
5 minutes I am up to 310mb of used memory. When I shut both down I get about
10mb back. Load both up again and the count goes up to over 400mb.

Do others have these problems?

Thanks

Pat

[Jonny]

Patrick

> After loading up .NET IDE and the Integrated Help and using it for a
around
> 5 minutes I am up to 310mb of used memory. When I shut both down I get
about
> 10mb back. Load both up again and the count goes up to over 400mb.
>
> Do others have these problems?

Yes. I reckon the min spec is 1GB RAM and I normally reboot every 10
mins or so. Its great - just like being back in Win 3.1. The culprit, as
you mention, is the MSDN help. Am I alone in finding the so called
'dynamic help' a complete waste of time? If you have that open you can
kiss your resources goodbye.

Still, the poor thing is still a baby-beta so I am not really
complaining.

Jonny

[Kathleen Dollard-Joeris]

Jonny,

It is a single mouse click to turn it off.

Might work out in Beta2 or RTM, but for now, I shut dynamic help down.

--
Kathleen
(MS-MVP)
Reply in the newsgroup so everyone can benefit
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[Zane Thomas]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:15:20 -0700, "Jonny" <jonny@joyofvb.com> wrote:

>Am I alone in finding the so called
>'dynamic help' a complete waste of time?

Never touch the stuff.

Hey, I sure have been having some fun today. Been putting some of the
stuff in Sytem.Type and System.Reflection to work - hopefully for a good
cause as you know.

What a joy it is, the power in the base classes is stunning and easily
accessible. Doing the equivalent sort of work in COM was a nightmare.

Of course I did a whole lot of reading of things I ended up not using
today and so my knowlege of the base classes is growing. Can't complain
about that either.


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Ice Z - Straight Outta Redmond

[Mark Hurd]

I'm finding, on Win2000 Professional SP1 with IE5.5 SP1 and 128MB RAM, that
the memory is used up to a rather high limit rather quickly, but performance
does not degrade for quite a long time afterwards, as you'd expect from
leaks. It's the limit that interests me -- it's as if there is some sort of
garbage collection going on.

And yes the final straw, no the bale, that causes me to close the IDE and
open again is normally the help. I tried a session or two without it, but I
found I preferred to have it available and fight the memory problems :-}

Regards,
Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.)