MVP's Please respond!

[Vai2000]

Hi All, To my correct understanding Garbage Collection works based on
Generation algorithm...(high level).
I have an application which does some heavy operations usually File I/O's. I
want to force garbage collection on this class. I still want the GC to
release all resources before finalizing etc...but I want GC to kick in ASAP,
rather waiting to execute its algo to detect that this class needs cleaning
up and finally come to its rescue...

This is what I have implemented. Please advice

TIA

class Foo:IDisposable
{

public void Dispose()
{
GC.Collect();
}

}

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\) [C# MVP]]

Hi Vai2000 ,

Take a look at System.GC class. It has methods:
GC.Collect() to force grabage collection
GC.WaitForPandingFinalizers() - after calling GC.Collect it will block until
all finalizers finish.

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HTH
Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]
"Vai2000" <no****@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi All, To my correct understanding Garbage Collection works based on
Generation algorithm...(high level).
I have an application which does some heavy operations usually File I/O's. I want to force garbage collection on this class. I still want the GC to
release all resources before finalizing etc...but I want GC to kick in ASAP, rather waiting to execute its algo to detect that this class needs cleaning up and finally come to its rescue...

This is what I have implemented. Please advice

TIA

class Foo:IDisposable
{

public void Dispose()
{
GC.Collect();
}

}

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

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Vai2000 <no****@microsoft.com> wrote:

Hi All, To my correct understanding Garbage Collection works based on
Generation algorithm...(high level).
I have an application which does some heavy operations usually File I/O's. I
want to force garbage collection on this class. I still want the GC to
release all resources before finalizing etc...but I want GC to kick in ASAP,
rather waiting to execute its algo to detect that this class needs cleaning
up and finally come to its rescue...

This is what I have implemented. Please advice

class Foo:IDisposable
{
public void Dispose()
{
GC.Collect();
}
}

That looks like a very bad idea to me. Why do you think it's a good
idea to force garbage collection? Much better would be to call Dispose
on all the appropriate streams explicitly. That will release the
unmanaged resources but not force a potentially expensive garbage
collection.

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