Before you ship code – make sure there are no leaks etc

Whether you coding in C# or TSQL, you can often have a variety of challenges in your code that never expose themselves on a development box. Good practice is create unit tests that runs for ever exercising all code paths and seeing what happens.

 

When you do this, you want to open PerfMon and watch the following items carefully (there are other items that are performance related – these are items indicating common code problems).

Object Performance Counter Issue
Memory Free System Page Table Entries > 5000: Memory Leak
  Pool Non-Paged Bytes > 175MB: Memory Leak
  Pool Paged Bytes > 250MB: Memory Leak
  Pages Per Second > 1000: Memory Leak
Processor % User Time >80%: Code refactor may be needed
Process Handle Count > 10000: Handle Leak
SQL Server:SQL Statistics Failed Auto-Parms/Second High number: refactor TSQL
SQL Server: Locks Average Wait (MSec)
Lock Waits
Lock Timeout/sec
High value: Transaction code problems and/or index structure
     

 

Also look in the System Event Log for:

  • Event ID 2020: Memory Leak

One approach is to set  the polling frequency to 60 seconds or more and then see if any counter grows over time.

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