I'm maintaining a web application that has a memory leak. Based on my investigation using Red Gate ANTS memory profiler I'm pretty sure that the memory leak is caused by event handlers in the business layer. There's a collection that registers an event handler on each item that's added so that the collection can re-sort when the item's...
I love the profiling tools that Red Gate makes for when I write in C#. Right now I am writing an application for iPhone in Objective-C and I am having a hard time adjusting to Instruments. It's just not as easy to use. Does anybody have a better code profiler for memory and performance? If not, any good tutorials for instruments? Th...
I cannot find this information anywhere. Within Visual Studio I'm using the ANTS Profiler add-on. It always launches IE. My default browser is Firefox. I cannot find a setting anywhere where I can change the default. Can someone help? ...
An ASP.NET web app running on IIS6 periodically shoots the CPU up to 100%. It's the W3WP that's responsible for nearly all CPU usage during these episodes. The CPU stays pinned at 100% anywhere from a few minutes to over an hour. This is on a staging server and the site is only getting very light traffic from testers at this point. W...
I'm looking at building some unit tests to ascertain if resources are leaking (or not) using the unit testing framework that comes with Visual Studio. At present, I'm evaluating the latest version of ANTS Profiler, but I can't quite work out if it allows me to force a snapshot from code (so that I can take a snapshot, run a unit test a ...
Hi All, I have a memory issue on my websites and am trying to get to the bottom of it. I have downloaded the 14 day trial of ANTS Memory Profiler and have been playing with it to get a grip of what it's telling me. In the memory options on the timeline, I can see Bytes in All Heaps and Private Bytes etc but I am not sure which ones I sh...
Hello, I am trying to use Redgate Ants memory profiler with the command line. I have seen the redgate page on the command line but did not find it very informative. Does anyone have a more detailed description on how to do this? Thanks for any help. ...
I am using ANTS Memory Profiler to try and determine why my application's memory usage is continuing to grow. I run the application and take various snapshots over time. I can see that the live instances of IWbemClassObjectFreeThreaded and ManagementBaseObject keeps increasing over time. Looking at the class reference explorer I can s...
I want to know if it's possible to profile my web application when it's hitting a database on a SQL Server Express server with ANTS profiler. Out of the box, I'm not able to. It's complaining about: No event provider could be located for the SQL server instance 'SQLEXPRESS' Has anyone been able to get around this, or do I have ...