ASP.NET Memory - How much are you caching? + an example of .foreach
I was writing a post on debugging a high memory usage problem caused by storing too much in session scope, but I realized I got in to tangent discussions all...
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.NET Memory Leak Case Study: The Event Handlers That Made The Memory balloon
It always feels like issues come in clusters. One week we get tones of cache related cases, next week everyone is stuck in some lock and so on. Lately I have...
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Debugging Tips: Use windbg as a calculator, a chat client and more…
Yes, you read it right… it’s not only a debugger, for only $19.95 extra, we’ll throw in a free calculator and chat client:) and you can even run applications...
Back to Basics - How do I get the memory dumps in the first place? And what is SOS.dll?
Windbg.exe and its friends can be installed from here
A Hang Scenario, Locks and Critical Sections
The situation here is that the server at times slows down considerably, or even hangs completely. Requests start timing out and no new requests seem to be ge...
Things to ignore when debugging an ASP.NET hang
When looking at a dump, a lot of the art of debugging (I like to call it an art because it makes me feel more important:)) is knowing what you can ignore so ...
Why do I get weird function names on my stack? (a discussion on symbols)
Symbols can contain information about global variables, local variables, function names, parameters, structures and source line numbers.
Associate windbg with .dmp files
If you get tired of starting the debugger, loading your dump, setting up your sympath, loading your extensions, etc. etc. here is a nifty way of getting “Deb...
Are you aware that you have thrown over 40,000 exceptions in the last 3 hours?
This may seem like a preposterous statement, but unfortunately it’s all too common.