Virtualization Memory Usage

[Rupendra]

We have a grid which is loading programatically columns and it's datatemplate. The column might contain a label or a link or an Items control containing multiple links. The grid is using virtualization and contains couple of hundered records however there are two problems as far as the performance is concerned.

1. The memory footprint goes in increasing even by scrolling the grid up and down. We have seen it going from 6 MB to 150+ MB in a matter of minutes of scrolling.
2. The grid becomes extremly slow when styles are applied to it.

Turning Virtualization off fixes the ever increasing memory footprint.


Sidenote: We have also started getting a lot of errors descibed on this thread (http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/gridview/system-nullreferenceexception-at-at-telerik-windows-controls-gridview-selectivescrollinggrid-layoutawarebindinghelperproxy.aspx). Can by chance that be a reason why the performance issues are also showing up ? This thread says that it has been fixed in the internal build. When do you plan to release that ?

[Vlad]

Hello,

 The memory consumption and possible leaks are directly related to what's in your template. Can you remove the template temporary to see if you will have the same problems? Can you post more info about your Silverlight and RadGridView versions?

You can get our latest build to resolve the second problem.

All the best,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[Rupendra]

Ticket submitted.

[Vlad]

Hello,

 I've reviewed your project and I've noticed that you've set explicitly various styles for the grid which is slowing the grid scrolling performance. Please check this article in our documentation to know more about this:
http://www.telerik.com/help/silverlight/gridview-troubleshooting-performance.html

The grid scrolling will be much faster if you use implicit styles for rows instead and AlternateRowBackground instead AlternateRowStyle.

All the best,
Vlad
the Telerik team