Question

Can anybody explain why this tiny app’s memory usage keeps increasing ?

static class Program
{
    private static System.Timers.Timer _TestTimer;

    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
        _TestTimer = new System.Timers.Timer();
        _TestTimer.Interval = 30;
        _TestTimer.Elapsed += new System.Timers.ElapsedEventHandler(_TestTimer_Elapsed);
        _TestTimer.Enabled = true;

        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new Form1());
    }

    static void _TestTimer_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
    {
        string test = "tick";
        Trace.WriteLine(test);
        test = null;
    }
}

Thanks!
Pika81

Answer 1

My suggestion would be to crank up Windbg and find out what objects exist in memory.
Agreed that we devs generally use it as the last option but in this case, it would give you the exact reason for the memory increase