These pages cover ANTS Memory Profiler 10, which is not the latest version. Help for other versions is also available.
Troubleshooting
Published 14 May 2018
Common issues
- Cannot attach to process due to anti-virus software
- Memory leaks observed when profiling WPF applications
- Performance counters are missing
- Profiling large applications
- Silverlight in-browser profiling stops with no results
- Silverlight out-of-browser profiling stops with no results
- Snapshots are very slow
- Troubleshooting SharePoint profiling
Error messages
- Couldn't open metabase
- Error stopping IISAdmin profiling IIS web application on Windows XP
- Failed to CoCreate Profiler
- No Disk
- Operation could destabilize the runtime
- The COMplus application has not loaded the .NET Framework
- The snapshot failed because .NET did not report every referenced object
- The system cannot find the file specified
- The type initializer for 'y.layout.hierarchic.ClassicLayerSequencer' threw an exception
- Unable to connect to server
Unexpected behavior and technical questions
- Instance values are unavailable
- Profiler prompts for location of source code which is not your own source code
- Profiling a Windows service fails if the service uses a system account
- Profiling Microsoft Office managed-code add-ins
- Total size of all objects does not match the memory footprint of an application
