I get several emails every week through the blog asking for help on various issues. Unfortunately due to time constraints I can?t really look at them all on an individual bases but I thought this particular request might be interesting to share.
The problem description was ?One of our w3wp.exe?s just keep on growing (slowly), and never releasing memory back to the pot. The main offender appears to be System.String and System.Object[]? and the email then had some !dumpheap ?stat output (from windbg and sos)
0:000> .load sos
0:000> !dumpheap -stat
...
654060a8 5622 292344 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBuffer
79109778 5505 308280 System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo
79131d04 1598 329732 Syst ...
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