.Net memory leak: Unblock my finalizer

re: .Net memory leak: Unblock my finalizer

Dhaval — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:02:31 GMT

Hey I am running your hang analysis code on the different dump file and getting this as a result please help me understand this things.

The Finalizer (Thread -1) is blocked

There is no data shown in the other part of result.

re: .Net memory leak: Unblock my finalizer

Dhaval — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:19:08 GMT

We are having the same issue may be. I have done the analysis using your Hang Analysis code.

The result is :

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Hang Analysis

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GC RELATED INFORMATION

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The following threads are GC threads:

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

The Finalizer (Thread 16) is blocked

.shell: Process exited

There is no data shown in the other two part of this result. So what I am assuming is that my finalizer is blocked.

So now it is the only thing I should concentrate on or its may be kind of thing.

(Either I should move towards Profiles now for tracing down this issue to the code level. )

re: .Net memory leak: Unblock my finalizer

Lavanya — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:10:28 GMT

Thanks for the detailed information.

It is indeed really helpful for freshers to learn debugging without the spoon fed Visual Studio.

re: .Net memory leak: Unblock my finalizer

ji — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:34:42 GMT

the link for .net 2.0 (rotor) is broken. Can you please fix it.

Thanks

re: .Net memory leak: Unblock my finalizer

commenter — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:40:57 GMT

"A finalize method should never perform a blocking operation"

So, never use STA COM objects.

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re: .Net memory leak: Unblock my finalizer

Alois Kraus — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:47:42 GMT

Thanks Tess for clarification of what should be considered a managed and unmanaged resource.

Yours,

Alois Kraus