Is there a better way of disabling memory monitor hook

Question

I am working on performance tuning for a Sitecore website. My current task is to disable memory monitor hook. For this, I am referring to Sitecore's tuning guide which can be found here. Now, according to the section 7.3.3, in order to disable memory monitor, I need to comment out specific lines in web.config.

However, I was wondering if there is a better way to do this? I know for changing the 'Setting', we would do it by providing a patch file. I was wondering if I could do the same here without directly changing the web.config file or is that the only option for me in this particular case.

Please let me know. Thanks!

Answer 1

You could use a patch file to do this too. Using the <patch:delete /> method:

<hook type="Sitecore.Diagnostics.MemoryMonitorHook, Sitecore.Kernel">
    <patch:delete />
</hook>

Add that to a config in your include folder and it will remove the memory hook config without having to directly edit the web.config file.

Answer 2

Richard's answer is absolutely correct.

It removes the memory monitor hook completely.

If you want to disable it only, you can change the Check Interval attribute only with 00:00:00 value.

Just drop the patch config file to App_config\Include with the following content:

<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
    <sitecore>
        <hooks>
            <hook type="Sitecore.Diagnostics.MemoryMonitorHook, Sitecore.Kernel">
                <param  patch:instead="*[@desc='Check interval']" desc="Check interval">00:00:00</param>
            </hook>
        </hooks>
    </sitecore>
</configuration>