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SamXion
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Nov 12, 2021
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Why is my ASP.Net Web API piling up memory?

Hi everyone,   I have a very simple MVC web api with a single controller that currently does nothing but returning a value. I am publishing it in VS2022 Preview 1 into a single file, so I get an .e...
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    shawnwildermuth
    Nov 14, 2021
    If you're calling it ever 250ms, it's likely not quiet enough for the Garbage collector to fire up. And with 90mb, it likely isn't pushing enough memory pressure (that's still tiny) to force the Garbage collector.
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Codenamejack
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Nov 13, 2021
Have you tried launching it without debugger? Maybe with dotnet run command. Is the behaviour same even then?
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SamXion
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Nov 15, 2021
The VS publishing function is always compiling in Release mode so that cannot be it. Also, actually when running the API in debug mode, this memory piling does NOT occur. Oo

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