Snapshots Settings Page

Automatically save heap snapshots

This setting allows heap snapshots to be automatically saved to a temporary file. If snapshots are automatically saved, all snapshots collected will be available in the Show snapshot and Comparison snapshot dropdown list.

The Include instance data checkbox can be used to decide whether instance data collected by a snapshot should be included when auto-saving the snapshot.

Automatically collect a snapshot every…

This option can be used to perform automatic snapshot collections at a pre-defined interval. The field below is used to define the collection interval in minutes.

Maximum number of triggered heap snapshots

This setting is used to limit the number of snapshot collections triggered by the profiled process or by automatic snapshot collection. A snapshot is triggered when the profiled process calls the MemProfiler.FullSnapShot method or when a memory assertion has failed. Each snapshot consumes a considerable amount of memory, so collecting too many snapshots may cause the performance of the profiler and the system to degrade.