GAC and memory usage

[ph_haenggi]

Hello

Currently, we have more than 100 similar web applications running.
Every application has a virtual directory that points to the aspx-
files, so they all use the same files. But every application has their
own dll's in their bin-directory.

With the new version of our web-application I am not sure if I should
put some of the dll's into the GAC. Does it reduce memory-usage, if
you have the dll's in the GAC instead of the bin-directory of each web-
application?

Thanks for answering.

Philipp Hänggi

 

[bruce barker]

no. it only saves disk space.

if your apps all start at the same time, you may get some gain for using
the gac and a common jit'd image file. as each app loads the common dll,
it may be cached by the disk system. (this is probably unmeasureable)

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)