Memory Size of Managed Objects

[Adam Parker]

I am in the process of writing a simple web server monitor (ASP.Net with
VB.Net). One piece of useful information for me to gather would be the
amount of memory used by objects stored in the cache.

Items in the cache are either custom objects or are Hashtables. How can I
get the memory size of these objects.

Marshal.SizeOf(object) does not work in this case because .Net cannot
Marshal Managed objects. I thought that I might be able to pull out the
component items in each object and build the total size from their aggrigate
sizes, however that would require me to determine each objects type so that I
can correctly gather size info from the internal attributes, something that I
do not want to do.

Is there a generic way to either:
1) get the size of Managed Objects
2) convert Managed Objects into Unmanaged Objects that can be marshaled?

I appreciate the help.