Demystifying Memory Profilers in C# .NET Part 3: Memory Pressure
In this article, we’ll see how GC activity can cause major performance problems. This phenomenon is called Memory Pressure and we’ll see how to deal with it using memory profilers.
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Demystifying Memory Profilers in C# .NET Part 2: Memory Leaks
Memory leaks are very common, hard to notice, and eventually, lead to devastating consequences. The main tool to detect and fix memory leaks is a Memory Profiler. In fact, I believe the most common usage of memory profilers in .NET is exactly for the purpose of fixing memory leaks. In this article, you’ll see exactly how to use memory profilers to find the leaky objects, why they are still referenced, and how to solve the problem.
Demystifying Memory Profilers in C# .NET Part 1: The Principles
Memory leaks and GC Pressure cause pretty inconvenient effects like out-of-memory crashes, performance problems, and high memory consumption. Our primary tools when dealing with those issues are memory profilers. They are one of the most important category of tools in .NET troubleshooting, and in this article, you’ll see how to use them and extract the most information from them.
Is C# Slower Than C++?
Is C# slower than C++? That’s a pretty big question. As a junior developer, I was sure that the answer is “Yes, definitely”. Now that I’m more experienced, I know that this question is not obvious and even quite complicated.
10 Essential Debugging Tools for C# .NET Development
When it comes to debugging software, tools are extremely important. Get the right tool and you extract the right information. Get the right information and you can find the root cause of the issue. Find the root cause and you’ve solved the bug.
C# to C# Communication: REST, gRPC and everything in between
There are many ways to communicate between a C# client and a C# server. Some are robust, others not so much. Some are very fast, others aren’t. It’s important to know the different options so you can decide what’s best for you.
Debugging ASP.NET Web Request Failures: The Complete Guide
You’re sending an HTTP request to your ASP.NET server, and out of the blue, it returns a 500 error. Now what? The error code doesn’t say too much by itself. Did a database request fail? Was there an exception? In this article we’ll see how to get the most information on the error.
Debugging 3rd Party .NET Code without symbols in Visual Studio
It’s not so rare to see weird things happen in 3rd party library code. Call some method and you’ve got a strange exception. Or an incorrect behavior or even a process crash. It sure would be nice to debug some of these issues. In this article we’re going to do just that – You’ll see how to debug 3rd party library code in Visual Studio.
Debugging Lock Contention Performance Issues in C# .NET
Lock contention is a state where one thread is waiting for another while trying to acquire a lock. Whatever time spent waiting for the lock is “lost” time that is wasted doing nothing and causes performance problems. In this article, you’ll see how to detect lock contention problems, debug them, and find the core cause of the issue.
Performance Profiling of .NET Core 3 applications on Linux with dotnet-trace and PerfView
Performance issues never seem to disappear from the world, no matter how fast new computers become. To deal with those issues we need proper tools. We have some great tools on Windows. On .NET Core with Linux, things are not so great. But they’re getting better.