How to research unmanaged memory leaks in .NET?

Question

I have a WCF service running over MSMQ. Memory gradually increases over time, indicating that there is some sort of memory leak. I ran the service locally and monitored some c

Answer 1

This blog will help you if you are willing to learn about windbg (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx).

http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/default.aspx

Answer 2

Make sure that you close the service client after using it. something like

try {
... do work ...
Close();
} ... exception handling ... {
Abort();
}

Answer 3

Ants Profiler is worth considering. As far as I can remember, you can download a trial version.

Answer 4

You can use Windbg to analyze the process Heap. There are some articles and cheat sheets showing how to do this, like Memory Leak Detection Using Windbg