Memory Leak in Telerik Reporting Service

[Kanoo]

I've web application and using AspNetCore 2.0. I'm using Telerik Reporting v12.0.18.125
I'm facing a memory leak issue in my system. After displaying the Report using Report Viewer the Report object is still in the memory heap and refreshing the report one time create more 3 report instances and it is never removed from the memory.
I'm using below CustomReportResolver to Resolve the report using DependencyInjection 

public class CustomReportResolver : IReportResolver
  {
      private readonly IIocResolver iocResolver;
      private readonly IAbpSession abpSession;

      public CustomReportResolver(IIocResolver iocResolver,IAbpSession abpSession)
      {
          this.iocResolver = iocResolver;
          this.abpSession = abpSession;
      }

      public ReportSource Resolve(string reportId)
      {
          var reportType = Type.GetType(reportId);

          if (reportType == null)
              throw new UserFriendlyException($"Could not find a corresponding report for type '{reportId}'.");

          var report = (Report) this.iocResolver.Resolve(reportType);
          var customReport = report as ReportBase;
          if (customReport != null)
          {
              customReport.TenntId = abpSession.TenantId;
              customReport.UserId = abpSession.UserId;
              customReport.IocResolver = this.iocResolver;
          }

          var reportSource = new InstanceReportSource {ReportDocument = report};
          return reportSource;
      }
  }

and this is the ReportsController

[ApiExplorerSettings(IgnoreApi = true)]
   public class ReportsController : ReportsControllerBase, ITransientDependency
   {
       public ReportsController(IHostingEnvironment environment, IIocResolver iocResolver, IAbpSession abpSession)
       {
           this.ReportServiceConfiguration =
              new ReportServiceConfiguration
              {
                  HostAppId = "Html5DemoApp",
                  Storage = new FileStorage(),
                  ReportResolver = new CustomReportResolver(iocResolver,abpSession)
              };
       }
   }

I want to find a way to remove the Report Instance from the memory to avoid this memory leak issue.

Thanks,

 

[Todor]

Hi Kanoo,

The Report Engine indeed needs more that one instance of the report to resolve parameters, process and render the report in the required format (pdf, doc, etc.) - check Report Life Cycle article.
Each Refresh/Preview re-generates the report, hence the new instances. The instances are released after the Report Engine has finished using them.

In .NET you are not supposed to release memory yourself, i.e. you don't get memory leaks in the traditional sense.
The Report Engine relies on the Garbage Collection to release the memory occupied by report instances. The unused report instance(s) would be eventually collected when/if any of the conditions for Garbage Collection is met.

Therefore we do NOT consider the creation of more than one instance of the report as a Memory Leak.

Each report instance occupies a small amount of memory that could hardly be critical for the application.
However, you are free to explicitly call GC.Collect() method to collect the released report instances. This would slow down the application though.

Regards,
Todor
Progress Telerik