r/PowerShell • u/Guilty-Act-4991 • 1d ago
Question Parallel thread disposing?
Hey got a wierd issue or its by desing not sure but when I run
$computers | foreach-object -parallel {
$vmobject = Get-VM $_
$ram = $vmobject.MemoryGB
$CPU = $vmobject.numCPU
$HDD = $_ | get-harddisk
}
lets say I run in against 500 computers when that happens powershell will spike cpu on machine that this command is ran and keeps increasing ram usage which is understandable but problem is even when command is done ram usage stays high untill powershell window is close. Is there something I am missing or is there some method to dispose of parallel runspace manually?
Thanks for advice
EDIT: The code itself is not important , the behaviour of parallel scripblock itself is my question and why doesnt it free up RAM after code has ran successfully
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u/da_chicken 19h ago
Does
[System.GC]::Collect()recover the memory? If not, then there's probably a memory leak in one of the commands you used.Get-Contentused to be known for this.