Memory issues

[mrdance]

I have a memory problem in vb.net. Try the following:

 

1. create a timer, set interval to 100 ms and enable it

2. create a label

3. in the tick event of the timer type this:

 

label1.text = date.now.tostring

 

4. Open the taskmanager and look at the process slowly increasing the memory usage

5. Any ideas??

[PlausiblyDamp]

Tried it here and didn't really notice any increase in memory (although I only ran it for about 5 minutes). How long were you running your application and how large a memory increase did you notice.

Also it is worth knowing that .Net uses a lazy garbage collection system for recovering memory - if you have large amounts of RAM available then it will only attempt to reclaim this unused memory when it deems there is enough benefits from doing so.

[mrdance]

thank you for your time, it seemed like it stabilized it's memory usage later!

[Simcoder]

if your cpu starts to bog down on memory after running your app for awhile, it may be a good idea to call the garbage.collect function. This should free up some unused memory. you can place this in your timer and it should run fine.