Showing posts with label: Memory

Searching for memory leaks can easily become an adventure – fighting through a jungle of objects and references. When the leak occurs in production time is short and you have to act fast. Like in a treasure hunt, we have to interpret signs, unravel mysteries to finally find the “lost” memory.
Memory leaks – together with [...]

Memory Leaks and other memory related problems are among the most prominent performance and scalability problems in Java.  Reason enough to discuss this topic in more detail.
The Java memory model- or more specifically the garbage collector –  has solved many memory problems. At the same time new ones have been created. Especially in J EE [...]

The EntityDataSource is a control you can use on your ASP.NET Pages to connect ASP.NET Controls like the GridView to an ADO.NET Entity Framework Data Source. Its the easiest way to display, add or modify data via the Entity Framework.
ObjectContext Lifetime with the EntityDataSource
The default behavior of EntityDataSource is to create a new ObjectContext for every [...]

Memory Management is a tough topic in managed runtime environments like .NET or Java. Checking the available performance counters is a good start to identify memory leaks or memory problems. The .NET Runtime exposes several interesting counters that should be monitored:

Gen0, Gen1, Gen2 and Large Object Heap Size
Gen0, Gen1 Promoted Bytes/Sec
Promoted Memory from Gen0, Gen1
Total [...]

SharePoint is a great platform that makes it easy to customize the portal view for users to their individual needs. Many times though the out of the box Features, Lists and Web Parts are not enough. So you either buy 3rd party extensions or you build your own. One specific problem area with SharePoint is [...]