WindowsAzure-Accelerators/wa-accelerator-webroles — Issue #4: Memory Usage Issue
Author: ntotten
Created: 2012-01-31 02:11:12+00:00
State: open
Labels: P0

We have been using the accelerator for about a month and ran into the following error with one of our wcf services:
Memory gates checking failed because the free memory (229224448 bytes) is less than 5% of total memory. This occurs on a machine that has 4GB of RAM.
After looking into the problem, we found that the wcf service worker process was only using 260MB.

The process that was using the bulk of the memory on the machine was the Windows Azure Web Role Entry Point Host. This process was using over 1.5GB of memory and was using by far the most memory of all processes on the machine.

We believe the cause is the Azure Accelerator as we do not have any custom code in the Role Entry point and are using the Azure Accelerator. See the attached error message for reference.

Moved from: http://waawebroles.codeplex.com/workitem/15