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Looking for some advice on how to use Garbage collector

MayankGoyal2
Level 8
Hi,

For one of my process, BP automate.exe memory consumption is reaching > 1 GB after a step to kill excel process.
Before that step automate.exe is within 100mb. I am not sure how killing excel process impacts automate.exe memory. I know that excel process was running on high memory and this is why I am not closing workbook it rather killing excel process.

I was thinking to try Garbage collector as mentioned here - https://portal.blueprism.com/customer-support/support-center#/path/Operational-Support/Performance/Routine-Maintenance/1141009962/How-do-I-avoid-Out-Of-Memory-issues.htm

However I want to know the right way of implementing it, shall i create a new VBO with just 1 action and 1 code stage in that action.
Call this action from process. 

I believe garbage collector works at system level, so it won't matter if its a separate VBO, however it will be called within same session of process.
Looking for some inputs if there is a better way to design and use it for results.





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