Re: Window Service memory leak - C# Discussion Boards

14-Jul-09 0:36

Hi i have number of window services running on production server(Window server 2003 dedicated for window services).Everything was running fine from last 6 months but now some services start giving error System.OutOfMemoryException.
I think this issue is due to memory leaks.Now my questions are
(1)For immediate solution restarting of window services is enough or i have to restart the Production server.
(2)How to find the possible cause of memory leak and suggestion for possible causes of memory leak

himanshu

Luc Pattyn14-Jul-09 1:11

Luc Pattyn

14-Jul-09 1:11

Hi,

there are many possible causes. Here is one most people aren't aware of:

objects larger than 80KB get allocated on the "large-object-heap", which never gets compacted. The net result is it may fragment after some time, resulting in lots of memory being free yet the heap being unable to offer a chunk of memory large enough to satisfy the latest request.

Here are some candidates for large objects:
- images
- arrays in general
- large strings (TextBox/RichTextBox often is a culprit, as it requires the concatenation of all its text)
- StringBuillders and all kinds of collections since these typically are implemented as arrays as well; such objects get an initial capacity, and when insufficient, their array gets reallocated with twice the size.

Solution: there isn't a perfect solution. Some suggestions:
- avoid large objects as much as possible, don't use (Rich)TextBox for texts exceeding a few hundred lines
- when a StringBuilder or collection will grow large, allocate it with sufficient size right away.
- periodically restart your app (once a month, once a day, depending on how active its object allocation is)

BTW: I know of no readymade way to measure fragmentation; it is easy to measure it in a disruptive way though (I think I'll write a little article on that subject).

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modified on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:19 AM

himanshu256114-Jul-09 19:40

14-Jul-09 19:40

Thanks Luc for sharing your knowledgw with us.

Luc Pattyn wrote:
Here are some candidates for large objects:
- images
- arrays in general
- large strings (TextBox/RichTextBox often is a culprit, as it requires the concatenation of all its text)
- StringBuillders and all kinds of collections since these typically are implemented as arrays as well; such objects get an initial capacity, and when insufficient, their array gets reallocated with twice the size.

But possibility of above scenarios are not there in case of my window service. In my case , i am calling a web service which puts the message in the IBM MQ.Exception comes whenever i attemp to call the web service method.
(1)One possible cause for exception might be that the message size is very big Confused | :confused:

... waiting for your views on that
(2)Also, is it possible to monitor the memory used be window service(something with performance counter or some other way) ???
(3)For immediate solution should i restart my production server or restarting of window service do the trick...

himanshu

Luc Pattyn15-Jul-09 0:12

Luc Pattyn

15-Jul-09 0:12

Hi,

(1) I have no idea what the size of those messages would be. 80KB seems rather big for a message?

(2) fragmentation, the topic of my reply, is not caused by the amount of memory currently in use, it is caused by how the number and sizes of memory blocks evolve over time; and AFAIK Microsoft offers nothing to measure it. I know of an easy way to test it, but that test includes actions that fill the memory, i.e. allocate more until it fails. That probably is not what you want in an app, as it only makes sense if you can halt all threads but one, then fill the memory, then clean up again. The net result is you can prove there is fragmentation and how bad the situation is, it does not remedy anything.

(3) Restarting the process that throws the OOM would technically be a solution, no matter what the exact cause of the OOM is; whether it is functionally acceptable is up to you.

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himanshu256115-Jul-09 1:38

15-Jul-09 1:38

Thanks Luc for you reply

Luc Pattyn wrote:
80KB seems rather big for a message

I also think so.

Luc Pattyn wrote:
fragmentation, the topic of my reply, is not caused by the amount of memory currently in use, it is caused by how the number and sizes of memory blocks evolve over time

In that case if window service is idle for some time then why not garbage collector comes in picture and free the allocated memory

himanshu

Luc Pattyn15-Jul-09 1:50

Luc Pattyn

15-Jul-09 1:50

I see you haven't really understood my point yet: the large-object-heap does not get compacted, i.e. when there are empty holes in the one huge memory block it manages, then the occupied blocks are NOT shifted to create one big empty hole; moving large blocks was considered too expensive. The net result is, you could have 2GB of memory filled with a pattern like this:

80KB in use
90MB free
80KB in use
90MB free
80KB in use
...
80KB in use
90MB free
80KB in use
90MB free

which means less than one percent is in use, and still you can't allocate a single 100MB block.
That is what fragmentation is about; and that is why "memory usage" numbers don't tell you whether the situation exists or not.

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PIEBALDconsult14-Jul-09 6:24

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14-Jul-09 6:24

Your Service should be logging what method throws the Exception. You should be able to add more log messages like "I'm about to get a list of employees", etc. See if it's always the same action causing the problem (it may not be).

I write a lot of Windows Services, I don't keep a lot of data in the fields, mainly just database connections. Everything else is local to the methods in use so it gets garbage collected.

Review what data you keep in fields and rethink whether or not it needs to be.

himanshu256114-Jul-09 19:42

horizontal scroll bar on the panel....

14-Jul-09 19:42

Thanks buddy.....
Please look at my reply to Luc for futher clsssification of my problem.

himanshu

spalanivel14-Jul-09 0:06

Re: horizontal scroll bar on the panel....

14-Jul-09 0:06

Hi,
I am placing horizontal scroll bar on the Panel and how to change the panel direction(left or right) according to the scrolling position?
Any sample code?

Thanks,
Palanivel

Henry Minute14-Jul-09 0:26

Henry Minute

14-Jul-09 0:26

I think there is a possibility that you have misunderstood the purpose of a scrollbar. It is intended to move the content of a control, not the control itself.

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Re: horizontal scroll bar on the panel....

spalanivel14-Jul-09 0:35

Re: horizontal scroll bar on the panel....

14-Jul-09 0:35

Thanks for your reply Henry..

Exactly I want to move the contents of the Panel according to the horizontal scroll bar.

Any sample code..

Henry Minute14-Jul-09 0:43

Henry Minute

14-Jul-09 0:43

If your need to scroll the content of the panel is because they extend beyond its boundaries, setting the AutoScroll property to true will enable its built in Scrollbars. Look up the AutoScroll, AutoScrollMargin and AutoScrollMinSize properties on MSDN for examples.

If there is another reason, it might help if you describe what it is that you are trying to do in more detail.

Microsoft Visual C++ Library

GauravKP13-Jul-09 23:35

GauravKP

13-Jul-09 23:35

In my windows application in C# i m getting error message as
-----
Debug Assertion Failed!

Program: C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2008\WindowsApplication1\WindowsApplication1.EXE
File: cmdtarg.cpp
Line: 52

For information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts.

(Press Retry to debug the application)

----
Can any one suggest me some method to remove this error

Re: Microsoft Visual C++ Library

stancrm13-Jul-09 23:40

stancrm

13-Jul-09 23:40

This is a C# forum..!!!

Re: Microsoft Visual C++ Library

Manas Bhardwaj13-Jul-09 23:43

Uploading Files to HTTPS site [modified]

13-Jul-09 23:43

gauravems wrote:
i m getting error message as

there is a diference between error and assertion[^]. Smile | :)

gauravems wrote:
Can any one suggest me some method to remove this error

maybe Check your call-stack at the assert (debug window), that might give a clue to where the objects reference count goes wrong

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The_Collector13-Jul-09 23:28

The_Collector

13-Jul-09 23:28

Gud day everyone,

I want to upload files to an HTTPS site... the said site will ask a user name and a password upon opening the page. It will also ask another username & password when uploading the file...

problems:
1. my pc is behind a proxy server.
2. I did not find any solutions or sample codes to connect and upload into an HTTPS site. None of those samples I tried did not work or probably i just don't know how to use it.
3. I don't really understand the difference between HTTP and HTTPS except the latter will ask a username & a password.
4. I don't have a test HTTPS site because i don't know how to create one...

One time i encountered an error "System.Net.WebException The underlying connection was closed. Could not establish trust relationship with remote server."

Can i force the server to accept my certificate??? or do you have any solutions of my problems by all means.....

Hoping somebody can give thier brilliant solutions regarding this matter....

Thank you in advance....

xxx

modified on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:40 AM

Re: Uploading Files to HTTPS site

Manas Bhardwaj13-Jul-09 23:39

Re: Uploading Files to HTTPS site

13-Jul-09 23:39

The_Collector wrote:
my pc is behind a proxy server.

How does that matter

The_Collector wrote:
I did not find any solutions or sample codes to connect and upload into an HTTPS site. None of those samples I tried did not work or probably i just don't know how to use it.

The program does not change for a http or https site.

The_Collector wrote:
I don't really understand the difference between HTTP and HTTPS except the latter will ask a username & a password

That not true. Https has nothing to with the authentication(i.e. asking for username and password)
Good explanation here[^]

The_Collector wrote:
I don't have a test HTTPS site because i don't know how to create one...

You can create one like this[^]

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The_Collector14-Jul-09 2:16

The_Collector

14-Jul-09 2:16

regarding the making of a test server, i had read that link you provid but its totally deffrfent from what is n actual.... we have a windows server 2000 as our test server....

do u have a sample code as my basis???? i rerally need it badly...
thanks

xxx

Re: Uploading Files to HTTPS site

The_Collector14-Jul-09 18:06

The_Collector

14-Jul-09 18:06

HI,

to explain more... a popup window will appear like "http://www.zoneedit.com/auth/"

i'll be task to develop a program which will upload a file automatically on a given time without human intervention... I have d user & password but i dont know how to do it.... I made a lot of efforts but none is working...

below is my coding i used..

private void btnUpload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

try
{
System.Net.ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy = new MyPolicy();

string uploadData = "user=" + TxtUser.Text + "&password=" + TxtPassword.Text; ;
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
byte[] uploadByte = encoding.GetBytes(uploadData);

// Create the HttpWebRequest and set its properties

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(TxtSite.Text);
request.ContentLength = uploadData.Length;
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.Method = "POST";
request.Timeout = 20000;

// Get a Stream from the HttpWebRequest and write login info to it
Stream uploadStream = request.GetRequestStream();
uploadStream.Write(uploadByte, 0, uploadByte.Length);

WebClient Client = new WebClient();
Client.UploadFile(TxtSite.Text, TxtFile.Text);
}
catch (Exception expx)
{
MessageBox.Show(expx.Message);
}

}
tnx in advance

xxx

Making a video??

Muammar©

13-Jul-09 23:28

Hi,
How would you make a video from a series of still images??
Any idea??

modified on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:44 AM

Re: Making a video??

Manas Bhardwaj13-Jul-09 23:44

how to generate only 0's and 1's for given times....

13-Jul-09 23:44

This thread [^]might help you.

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spalanivel13-Jul-09 23:28

Re: how to generate only 0's and 1's for given times....

13-Jul-09 23:28

Hi,
I want to generate 0's and 1's in the sequence like "0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1"....

I Used,

int returnValue = RandomNumber(0, 2); generates random numbers excluding the max .

But still i am getting all ones like (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1). How to get 0's and 1's alternatively...

Manas Bhardwaj13-Jul-09 23:49

Re: how to generate only 0's and 1's for given times....

13-Jul-09 23:49

private string GetSequence(int PiNrOfTimes)
{
	string _result = string.Empty;

	for (int _count = 0; _count &amp;lt; PiNrOfTimes; _count++)
	{
		if (_count % 2 == 0)
			_result += "0,";				
		else
			_result += "1,";
	}
	return _result;
}

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spalanivel14-Jul-09 0:03