JetBrains Technical Series
About This Book
How the Book Is Organized
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Why Should I Care about Memory?
Types of Memory Issues
How Can I Find These Issues?
What Does Memory Profiling Look Like Exactly?
What Tools Do I Need?
Memory Leaks
How .NET Stores Objects in Memory
Who Retains the Object? A Common Approach of Detecting Memory Leaks
What If a Leak Is Not Obvious? Automatic Inspections
How to Fight
What If There Is Nothing Suspicious in the Object’s Retention Path? GC Roots
Summary
High Memory Traffic
How Garbage Collection Works
Considerations on Fighting High Memory Traffic
Things Worth Looking For
Summary
Ineffective Memory Usage
Who Retains Memory?
What Methods Allocate the Most Memory?
Things Worth Looking For
Summary
Memory Profiling in Unit Tests
How It Works
When to Use dotMemory Unit
Example 1. Checking for Specific Objects
Example 2. Selecting Objects by a Number of Conditions
Example 3. Checking Memory Traffic
Example 4. Complex Scenarios for Checking Memory Traffic
Example 4: Comparing Snapshots
Memory Profiling in Continuous Integration
Integration with JetBrains TeamCity
Conclusion
dotMemory and dotTrace