Windows service allocates memory continuosly, how can I handle it?

eno one

I have created a windows service that starts a thread which writes periodically to a database.
It is doing the job that I wanted but there is a problem.
In the task manager the process that starts by teh service increases in memory usage, 8 KB every 30 seconds.
Since the service is ment to be ran 24 hours a day. I think that the memory usage increasing is a problem.
Does anybody know how to handle this?
Thanks in advance.

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eno one18y ago
I deleted the code because i will make some changes...
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eno one18y ago
In the method WriteEvent I don't create a new peocess, I just get the ame of the current process that is running just to write in a database teh amount of Usage Memory it is showing in the task manager.
the memory it is using is written in the database every 10 seconds and that is why i created the while(true) loop.
If I want to stop this thread I can do from teh service, but the service will start only once and will run continuosly.
Inside the loop I don't initialize any object.
I wish I was clear with the explanations.
IF you have any idea please don't hesitate to write it.
Thanks again.
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Ryan Alford18y ago
you have an infinite loop. I don't think I have ever recommended anybody to use "while(true)". You are using that, yet never getting out of the loop. Also, let me guess, the timer for the process to start is 30 seconds? So basically, every time the code in the service starts, it creates a new instance. Then it starts the infinite loop. So in 5 minutes, you have 10 instances and 10 infinite loops that are running.
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Ryan Alford18y ago
sounds like a coding problem. Can you post the code that writes to the database?
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