c# : simulate memory leaks

Question

I would like to write the following code in c#. a) small console application that simulates memory leak. b) small console application that would invoke the above application and

Answer 1

I have tried to use the approach, described in the accepted answer, but it didn't work - it looks like compiler or runtime have optimized this away.

I have found the simplest modification which makes this work:

var rnd = new Random();
var list = new List();
while (true)
{
    byte[] b = new byte[1024];
    b[rnd.Next(0, b.Length)] = byte.MaxValue;
    list.Add(b);

    Thread.Sleep(10);
}

This code makes application consume more and more memory.