GC notification event

[Paul F. Williams]

Is there a way to determine when the system has performed a garbage
collection? I would like to be able to write a console message when the CLR
performs a GC. Knowing when a GC happens might help me debug some odd
problems.

[Chris Lyon [MSFT]]

RE: GC notification event

Hi Paul

Currently there is no notification sent when a GC occurs. One possible solution would be to put a console.writeli ne in an object's finalizer, since that will only get called when a
collection occurs. The catch, however, is that the CLR makes no guarantees as to when a finalizer gets called (if it gets called at all ).

-Chris


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