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aliostad/MemoryCacheNoFinalizer.cs

Created October 4, 2013 14:26
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Not disposing MemoryCache results in memory leak
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MemoryCacheNoFinalizer.cs
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++)
{
var memoryCache = new MemoryCache("sdf"); // leads to memory leak!!!
// WHILE THIS ONE DOES NOT
// var memoryStream = new MemoryStream(new byte[100000]);
Thread.Sleep(1);
}
}
}
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Shouldn't you use MemoryCache.Default?

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