Colin Neller - Visual Studio has Debugging Memory Leaks

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

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Visual Studio has Debugging Memory Leaks

From time to time, I notice Visual Studio running sluggishly, so of course I bring up the trusted Process Explorer and here is what I see:

Half a gig of private bytes. Over a gig of virtual memory. Impressive. Best I can tell, VS 2003 seems to bloat exponentially when debugging (that's what I had been doing all day.) Perhaps it's not unloading all the PDBs it's done with them? I'm not sure, but the end result is definitely impressive. The fix? Restarting VS is the best I've come up with. Hopefully this is fixed in 2005...

.NET | Visual Studio

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:51:44 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)