Questions tagged [red-gate-ants]
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Finding memory leak in ASP.NET website with ANTS Memory Profiler?
I have a ASP.NET FRAMEWORK 4.0 website that has a memory leak. To find it I have installed ANTS Memory Profiler.
This is what I do :
Host website in IIS7
Start Ants Memory Profiler 8.1
Set the we are profiling a IIS website and state the URL to…

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Ants profile shows 150 percent of CPU usage
I am using Red-gate Ants profiler. When I profile my application it shows lot of spikes and show that the CPU usage is 150%.
How is that possible the usage to go beyond 100% ??
Additionally I would really appreciate if anyone can tell me how to…

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High memory usage when file generated using EPPLus library
HI All,
Using ANTS memory profiler, I noticed that in a process of creating Excel file using EPPLUS(3.5 MB) on IIS, a lot more memory (150MB) is added to IIS Worker Process (w3wp.exe). The memory count does not go down after a download is…

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Garbage Collection for List Objects
I would like to ask what is the efficiency way the clean and dispose the object collected in the List (Of Object)?
Is that by calling the List.Clear() method will automatic clean all the object collected by it?
For Example consider the below…

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.NET Memory leak analysis
I'm trying to find a memory leak in one of our applications, however it's quite elusive.
I've analyzed the program with Ants memory profiler and it found the leak to be in unmanaged code, for which Ants memory profiler is not suited:…

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Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler 6.3 gives error: Failed to connect to target process because an exception occurred, "Could not start IIS"
Just downloaded a 14 day trial of "ANTS Performance Profiler 6.3" to check performance on my web application. Here are my configuration settings after beginning a new session (via the File menu). I'm on Windows 7 and running IIS 7. This web…

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ASP.NET WebApp Performance issues: How to resolve?
I've been trying to identify some performance issues with our ASP.NET Web application. It's an online application, used by multiple users(10+). Just a quick overview: The applcation uses a combination of web forms, MVC Pages, web services etc...…

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How to use Red Gate Ants Profiler on the Command Line
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.

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Silient System.NotSupportException exceptions during WPF application startup
I'm profiling the performance of a WPF (.Net 4.0 on Win7) using Ants Profiler and I'm observing startup exceptions being reported in Ants Profiler but I'm not observing them in the application or VS debugger.
Importantly the application starts up…

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Winforms / WPF Private bytes Memory Leak?
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 to work on a Winform / WPF project.
It uses multiple projects and classes to build it into a working product.
My problem is, we have noticed that there is a 4-8k per second leak in the memory usage. granted it is a small…

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I cannot use Ants profiler with interop app on (only) my machine
I'm attempting to use the Red Gate Ants Performance Profiler for an application on my machine. When I run the profiler, I get the error below for every mouse or keyboard click (thus making it impossible to profile my application with that tool).…

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.NET 4.5 WCF hosted on IIS unmanaged memory usage
I'm trying to profile memory usage in simple WCF service hosted on IIS.
It seems strange to me - fairly large unmanaged memory consumption:
link
As you can see there is ~180MB memory used by unmanaged code/objects.
In detailed view I can see…
user2828788
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Microsoft.VisualStudio.WebHost.Connection leak while running
After stress testing my application, with Ants Memory Profiler (v 7.4.0.41) running, I found 22,395 different object instances of the class Microsoft.VisualStudio.WebHost.Connection.
The application type profiled was set to "ASP.NET web application…

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How to correlate filters in ANTS Memory Profiler to find memory leaks?
There are different set of filters in ANTS which leads to identification of Memory Leaks.
How do we correlate these filters to get the best result for memory leak identification?

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ASP.NET Performance issue in System.Web.Hosting namespace
I'm using RedGate ANTS to troubleshoot performance problems in an ASP.NET 3.5 WebForms app. When clicking in very small pages sometimes, it takes up to 15 seconds to load. These are pages without any data - just a handful of controls.
ANTS Profiler…

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