Beware Tracing in ASP.NET can lead to Memory leaks eventually OOM Part1

by jask2002 3. April 2012 07:41
Today while helping my colleague AnilKP to debug a memory leak issue for w3wp.exe. It was the perfect example to demonstrate scenario where memory leaks were self induced. Here is the complete saga

End customer complained that they had noticed worker process(w3wp.exe) hogs lots of memory. They have notices 1.2 GB process size in the task manager.

Time to look into the dumps in windbg

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My name is  Jas and I'm currently working with Microsoft IIS/ASP.Net Escalation services.

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