Entity framework uses a lot of memory

Question

Here is a image from the ANTS memory profiler. It seens that there are a lot of objects hold in memory. How can I find what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

I had the same problem in a class which uses dependency injection, so the using() option was not an alternative. My solution was to add DbContextOptions to the constructor and as a private field to the class. Then, you can call

_db.Dispose();
_db = new BlockExplorerContext(_dBContextOptions);

at appropriate times. This fixed my problem where I was running out of RAM and the application was killed by the OS.