Count features intersecting buffered geometry - memory leak

[AndyMarchant]

Hi All,

I'm calling the function below several thousand times, but it just seems to increase memory usage until it falls over. I've tried Marshal.ReleaseComObject and ComReleaser without any luck. It seems to be related to the buffered geometry as if I give the non buffered geometry (SiteGeometry) to pSpatialFilter it seems fine.

Any ideas how i release the memory used by this function?

thanks,

Andy

Public Function doSearch(ByVal SiteGeometry As IGeometry, ByVal SearchLayer As IFeatureClass, ByVal Buffer As Integer, ByVal shapeField As String) As Integer

        Dim topoOP As ITopologicalOperator2

        Dim pSpatialFilter As ISpatialFilter = New SpatialFilter

        topoOP = SiteGeometry

        topoOP.Simplify()

        Dim pGeometryBuff As IGeometry = topoOP.Buffer(Buffer)

        With pSpatialFilter

            .Geometry = pGeometryBuff

            .GeometryField = shapeField

            .SpatialRel = esriSpatialRelEnum.esriSpatialRelIntersects

        End With

        Dim theRowcount As Integer = SearchLayer.FeatureCount(pSpatialFilter)

        topoOP = Nothing

        pSpatialFilter = Nothing

        pGeometryBuff = Nothing

        pBC = Nothing

        Return theRowcount

    End Function

[DuncanHornby]

Your code looks OK to me. Don't know if this will help but maybe you can pass in siteGeometry and SearchLayer as "ByRef" rather than "ByVal"?

[RiverTaig1]

I would try using the SelectionSet method and getting the count off of that. Don't forget to call FinalReleaseComObject on selSet.

IWorkspace ws = ((IDataset)SearchLayer).Workspace;

ISelectionSet selSet = SearchLayer.Select(pSpatialFilter, esriSelectionType.esriSelectionTypeIDSet, esriSelectionOption.esriSelectionOptionNormal, ws);

int rowCount = selSet.Count;

Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(selSet);

Good luck.

[AndyMarchant]

thanks for your suggestions - i eventually managed to reduce the memory leak to an acceptable trickle using comReleaser. Final code is below:

Public Function doSearch(ByVal SiteGeometry As IGeometry, ByVal SearchLayer As IFeatureClass, ByVal Buffer As Integer, ByVal shapeField As String, ByVal thewhere As String) As Boolean

        Using comReleaser As ComReleaser = New ComReleaser()

            Dim topoOperator As ITopologicalOperator = CType(SiteGeometry, ITopologicalOperator)

            comReleaser.ManageLifetime(topoOperator)

            Dim buffer2 As IGeometry

            If Buffer = 0 Then

                buffer2 = SiteGeometry

            Else

                buffer2 = topoOperator.Buffer(Buffer)

            End If

            comReleaser.ManageLifetime(buffer2)

            Dim spatialFilter As ISpatialFilter = New SpatialFilterClass()

            comReleaser.ManageLifetime(spatialFilter)

            spatialFilter.Geometry = buffer2

            spatialFilter.GeometryField = shapeField

            spatialFilter.SpatialRel = esriSpatialRelEnum.esriSpatialRelIntersects

            spatialFilter.WhereClause = thewhere

            ' Execute the query.

            Dim featureCursor As IFeatureCursor = SearchLayer.Search(spatialFilter, True)

            comReleaser.ManageLifetime(featureCursor)

            Dim feature As IFeature = featureCursor.NextFeature()

            comReleaser.ManageLifetime(feature)

            If feature Is Nothing Then

                Return False

            Else

                Return True

            End If

        End Using

    End Function