How to solve Memory Fragmentation

Question

We\'ve occasionally been getting problems whereby our long-running server processes (running on Windows Server 2003) have thrown an exception due to a memory allocation fail

Answer 1

The problem does happen on Unix, although it's usually not as bad.

The Low-framgmentation heap helped us, but my co-workers swear by Smart Heap (it's been used cross platform in a couple of our products for years). Unfortunately due to other circumstances we couldn't use Smart Heap this time.

We also look at block/chunking allocating and trying to have scope-savvy pools/strategies, i.e., long term things here, whole request thing there, short term things over there, etc.