Hi,

I have a windows service thats sole purpose is to cache a large set of
data from a web service. The service writes the data to cache and
makes it available to all clients. I have seen a drop in load time of
the data from 8s to 2s.

The windows service subscribes to an event from the web service to get
dataset changes and write them out to the cache as they occur.

What I don't understand is why the memory usage is so high. Most
times it hovers at around 100MB... but there are times when I have
left the service running for a couple of days and seen it at 500MB -
700MB?

The only other thing the service does is write out a log file of when
it generated events and that it is listening to the web service for
events.

Any ideas? I don't think it should be this high.

Greg

Hi Greg,

Unless you are doing somethign wrong you are probably seeing garbage
collection at work - the memory reported isn't really used and if it becomes
required by some other app then GC will release it.
To accurately measure the memory usage you should resort to a memory
profiler.

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"Greg" <grthomas (AT) magma (DOT) ca> wrote