How to detect where a Memory Leak is?

Question

I have a large website that seems to be sucking up all the memory that is being allocated. There is nothing else on the server beside this site. Within a week it eats away t

Answer 1

Check out the Memory and Memory Leak labs on this blog post:

.NET Debugging Demos

They may be of some help. Basically, you can use WinDBG to analyze a memory dump and help determine what is eating up all of your memory.

We used a similar approach to determine that Regex was chewing up all of our memory, but only when the product was run on 64-bit machines. The learning curve is kind of steep, but WinDBG is a very powerful tool.