CLR Profiler enables you to look at the managed heap of a process and investigate the behavior of the garbage collector. Using the various views in the tool, you can obtain useful information about the execution, allocation, and memory consumption of your application.
CLR Profiler is not a starting point for analyzing problems. Rather, it helps you identify and isolate problematic code and track down memory leaks. Using CLR Profiler, you can identify code that allocates too much memory, causes too many garbage collections, and holds on to memory for too long.
Note CLR Profiler is an intrusive tool that causes your application's performance to be significantly slower than normal (somewhere between 10 to 100 times slower). The tool is not designed for use in production environments.
Download CLR Profiler
CLR Profiler is available as an Internet download from Microsoft Download Center at http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/4/2/442d67c7-a1c1-4884-9715-803a7b485b82/clr%20profiler.exe.
