The service was compile with no trace/debug constant and no debug info.
How would you inspect the memory usage of that windows services?
The service was compile with no trace/debug constant and no debug info. How would
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The service was compile with no trace/debug constant and no debug info.
How would you inspect the memory usage of that windows services?
All of the tools outlined above are excellent tools. If you have the have the budget for it, you would be hard to go wrong with either MemProfiler or RedGate’s tool that Mitch mentioned. I’ve used both, though RedGates was a previous verison. I understand their latest version has really stepped it up a notch.
If you don’t have the budget for it, then ProcessMon is usually the first tool you want to reach for when you suspect that you might have a memory leak. Highly recommend the suite of Sysinternals tools for troubleshooting.
While understanding how to read the data provided by ProcessMon will help you confirm that you have a memory leak, spending a little time learning to use WinDbg will help you identify what is leaking – though requires a bit more commitment.
All the tools mentioned, WinDbg, MemProfiler and RedGate, will allow you to inspect the memory of a service, or any other process. Not having the program sybmols available will make things harder for all the tools.
Not having symbols available is a ‘sin’ – if you own the service, rebuild with symbols. If you don’t want to deploy them with the service, look into implementing Source Server and Symbol Server (highly recommend). If a vendor owns the service, harass them to provide a version with symbols.
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Check out Tess Ferrandez Debugging Tutorials to get started with WinDbg.
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John Robbins on Source Server