ANTS Memory Profiler 5 and ANTS Performance Profiler 5 release candidate builds are now available. You can get them from:
http://downloads.red-gate.com/ANTSProfi ... AnyCpu.exe (ANTS Memory Profiler 5 RC)
http://downloads.red-gate.com/ANTSProfi ... AnyCpu.exe (ANTS Performance Profiler 5 RC)
A tutorial video for the memory profiler is available on YouTube, in two parts, at:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... A7EB46587E
Or as a single download from:
ftp://ftp.red-gate.com/ANTSMemoryProfil ... _Video.wmv
New to the RC builds is some support for CLR 4.0 (note that there is no side-by-side support). Since we are not yet planning official support for CLR 4.0 you may encounter problems, but if you let us know we will do our best to fix them: in reality you should find you can profile most applications just fine.
ANTS Memory Profiler 5 is our completely rewritten memory profiler. It offers the following features and benefits:
- Unparalleled performance
- Ability to take and analyse an arbitrarily large number of memory snapshots
- Support for snapshots up to 2GB (32-bit operating systems), and 4GB (64-bit operating systems)
- Arbitrary snapshot comparisons
- Summary information for profiling session, individual snapshots, and snapshot comparisons
- Large object heap fragmentation statistics
- Extremely powerful filtering options to narrow down to the objects you really need to know about
- A unique class graph view which allows you to quickly see where instances of a given class are being referenced
- A unique object retention graph, which quickly allows you to see shortest reference paths to all GC roots, which will need to be broken to fix memory leaks
- Ability to profile .NET executables, ASP.NET applications and web services in IIS and web development server, services, COM+ applications, and XBAP applications.
ANTS Performance Profiler 5 builds on the already strong foundations laid by ANTS Profiler 4 by providing an additional line level timing mode that only instruments methods with source code, thus making profiling with line level detail even faster. We have also included our vastly improved IIS support in this release.
The following operating systems are supported:
- Windows XP (32- and 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2003 (32- and 64-bit)
- Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2008 (32- and 64-bit; note that for R2 the same caveats apply as for Windows 7)
In addition both Windows 7 RC and Windows 2008 R2 should work fine, although, again, we haven't fully tested either of these so if you do encounter any problems please let us know, and we'll endeavour to fix them before the final release. In the RC builds we have fixed a crash that sometimes occurred in the betas when running on Windows 7.
Please note that we no longer support any edition of Windows 2000 (or earlier): it is unlikely that any attempt to install or run either profiler on Windows 2000 will be successful.
We anticipate the final release of both profilers will be available within the next 14 - 21 days. We hope you enjoy using these release candidates and find them useful. Please submit any feedback, bug reports, or other suggestions you have in this forum.
Many thanks,
http://downloads.red-gate.com/ANTSProfi ... AnyCpu.exe (ANTS Memory Profiler 5 RC)
http://downloads.red-gate.com/ANTSProfi ... AnyCpu.exe (ANTS Performance Profiler 5 RC)
A tutorial video for the memory profiler is available on YouTube, in two parts, at:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... A7EB46587E
Or as a single download from:
ftp://ftp.red-gate.com/ANTSMemoryProfil ... _Video.wmv
New to the RC builds is some support for CLR 4.0 (note that there is no side-by-side support). Since we are not yet planning official support for CLR 4.0 you may encounter problems, but if you let us know we will do our best to fix them: in reality you should find you can profile most applications just fine.
ANTS Memory Profiler 5 is our completely rewritten memory profiler. It offers the following features and benefits:
- Unparalleled performance
- Ability to take and analyse an arbitrarily large number of memory snapshots
- Support for snapshots up to 2GB (32-bit operating systems), and 4GB (64-bit operating systems)
- Arbitrary snapshot comparisons
- Summary information for profiling session, individual snapshots, and snapshot comparisons
- Large object heap fragmentation statistics
- Extremely powerful filtering options to narrow down to the objects you really need to know about
- A unique class graph view which allows you to quickly see where instances of a given class are being referenced
- A unique object retention graph, which quickly allows you to see shortest reference paths to all GC roots, which will need to be broken to fix memory leaks
- Ability to profile .NET executables, ASP.NET applications and web services in IIS and web development server, services, COM+ applications, and XBAP applications.
ANTS Performance Profiler 5 builds on the already strong foundations laid by ANTS Profiler 4 by providing an additional line level timing mode that only instruments methods with source code, thus making profiling with line level detail even faster. We have also included our vastly improved IIS support in this release.
The following operating systems are supported:
- Windows XP (32- and 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2003 (32- and 64-bit)
- Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2008 (32- and 64-bit; note that for R2 the same caveats apply as for Windows 7)
In addition both Windows 7 RC and Windows 2008 R2 should work fine, although, again, we haven't fully tested either of these so if you do encounter any problems please let us know, and we'll endeavour to fix them before the final release. In the RC builds we have fixed a crash that sometimes occurred in the betas when running on Windows 7.
Please note that we no longer support any edition of Windows 2000 (or earlier): it is unlikely that any attempt to install or run either profiler on Windows 2000 will be successful.
We anticipate the final release of both profilers will be available within the next 14 - 21 days. We hope you enjoy using these release candidates and find them useful. Please submit any feedback, bug reports, or other suggestions you have in this forum.
Many thanks,