How can i detect that garbage is running?

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baramee - 07 May 2004 03:47 GMT

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CT - 07 May 2004 08:38 GMT

Well, there's a lot of garbage out there...<g> No, seriously though, what is
it you want to achieve? When you kick off a .NET application, garbage
collection IS running.

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Niroo (MS) - 07 May 2004 11:11 GMT

If you open up perfmon - the under the .Net CLR memory - add the counters for Gen X collections and select the process you want to monitor

This give you the absolute number of collections at a moment in time for each generation of the heap. GCs are triggered by memory pressure so an app that is not allocating memory will not cause any GCs.

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CT - 07 May 2004 11:44 GMT

Great feedback. However, my point is that the CLR will administer and
monitor any .NET app started, hence the garbage collector "is running", i.e.
it's invoked when needed.

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> If you open up perfmon - the under the .Net CLR memory - add the counters
> for Gen X collections and select the process you want to monitor.
>
> This give you the absolute number of collections at a moment in time for
> each generation of the heap. GCs are triggered by memory pressure so an
> app that is not allocating memory will not cause any GCs.

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