"Greg" <grtho***@magma.ca> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I previously posted this in the performance newsgroup but thought I
> might get some better exposure here.
>
> I have a windows service thats sole purpose is to cache a large set
> of
> data from a web service.  The service writes the data to cache and
> makes it available to all clients.  I have seen a drop in load time
> of
> the data from 8s to 2s.
>
>
> The windows service subscribes to an event from the web service to
> get
> dataset changes and write them out to the cache as they occur.
>
>
> What I don't understand is why the memory usage is so high.  Most
> times it hovers at around 100MB... but there are times when I have
> left the service running for a couple of days and seen it at 500MB -
> 700MB?
>
>
> The only other thing the service does is write out a log file of when
> it generated events and that it is listening to the web service for
> events.
>
>
> Any ideas?  I don't think it should be this high.
>
>
> Greg
>