December 7, 2009 04:14 by
AntonIf you develop a desktop based application, you’ll notice that the working set size is quite big. For an empty windows form application, the size can be around 20 MB.
While this is not a problem, sometimes you may want to ‘trick’ the user that your running application has low memory consumption. By using P/Invoke this is possible.
[DllImport("psapi.dll")]
static extern int EmptyWorkingSet(IntPtr hwProc);
static void ClearMemory()
{
try
{
EmptyWorkingSet(Process.GetCurrentProcess().Handle);
}
catch
{
}
}
I got this information from this article. You need to remember that this method will only affect the working set, not the private bytes.