Anatomy of a “Memory Leak”

Question

In .NET perspective:

• What is a memory leak?
• How can you determine whether your application leaks? What are the effects?
• How can you prevent a

Answer 1

I will concur with Bernard as to in .net what a mem leak would be.

You could profile your application to see its memory use, and determine that if its managing a lot of memory when it should not be you could say it has a leak.

In managed terms I will put my neck on the line to say it does go away once the process is killed/removed.

Unmanaged code is its own beast and if a leak exists within it, it will follow a standard mem. leak definition.