Strategies For Tracking Down Memory Leaks When You've Done Everything Wrong

Question

My program, alas, has a memory leak somewhere, but I\'ll be damned if I know what it is.

Its job is to read in a bunch of ~2MB files, do some parsing and string repl

Answer 1

If your unmanaged object really is the cause of the leak, you may want to have it call AddMemoryPressure when it allocates unmanaged memory and RemoveMemoryPressure in Finalize/Dispose/where ever it deallocates the unmanaged memory. This will give the GC a better handle on the situation, because it may not realize there's a need to schedule collection otherwise.