I know I read everywhere that you "can't" force the
garbage collector to run, and that you really have no
control when it runs.
However as a programmer I know that there is always a way
around something.
So I ask you, how do you force the garbage collector to
run and clean up? 4 13871
GC.Collect will manually force it to fire..whether or not you actually want
to do that is another question.
You can also pass in a Param for the generation so you can just collect
specific generations.
HTH,
Bill
"IcedCrow" <ch********@aol .com> wrote in message
news:36******** *************** *****@phx.gbl.. . I know I read everywhere that you "can't" force the garbage collector to run, and that you really have no control when it runs.
However as a programmer I know that there is always a way around something.
So I ask you, how do you force the garbage collector to run and clean up?
IcedCrow, I know I read everywhere that you "can't" force the garbage collector to run, and that you really have no control when it runs.
I've never read that you can't force the GC to run, only that you should
normally not force it to run.
As William stated, you can use GC.Collect to force the garbage collector to
run.
Generally you should follow GC.Collect with a call to
GC.WaitForPendi ngFinalizers, then you should follow this with another call
to GC.Collect, followed by a second call to GC.WaitForPendi ngFinalizers.
As GC.Collect by itself will put objects into the finalization list,
GC.WaitForPendi ngFinalizers will remove these object from the list.
GC.Collect will then clean up these finalizable objects. Which may have
created more finalizable objects...
However it is highly advisable not to call GC.Collect as it takes care of
itself and you will potentially hurt performance rather then help
performance. The GC is self tuning, and if you call GC.Collect, the GC may
get 'out of sync'.
The following two articles covers when you should & should not call
GC.Collect. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1100/gci/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1200/GCI2/
Hope this helps
Jay
"IcedCrow" <ch********@aol .com> wrote in message
news:36******** *************** *****@phx.gbl.. . I know I read everywhere that you "can't" force the garbage collector to run, and that you really have no control when it runs.
However as a programmer I know that there is always a way around something.
So I ask you, how do you force the garbage collector to run and clean up?
Hi IcedCrow,
Just to add to Jay's references. (The article is excellent, by the way)
In part 2 of the article there's a link to Figure 1 which uses
JavaScript. It failed on my machine. If it fails for you too, the full
link
is http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...I2/figures.asp.
Regards,
Fergus
Hello,
"IcedCrow" <ch********@aol .com> schrieb: I know I read everywhere that you "can't" force the garbage collector to run, and that you really have no control when it runs.
However as a programmer I know that there is always a way around something.
In addition to the other links you should read the following chapter of the
documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...collection.asp
--
Herfried K. Wagner
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