Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management - Simple Talk

Workstation GC mode ................................................................................................... 64
Server GC mode ............................................................................................................... 67
Configuring the GC ........................................................................................................ 68
Runtime GC Latency Control ............................................................................................. 69
GC Notifications .................................................................................................................... 70
Weak References ..................................................................................................................... 73
Under the hood................................................................................................................ 74
More on the LOH ...................................................................................................................75
Object Pinning and GC Handles .........................................................................................76
GC Handles .......................................................................................................................77
Object pinning ..................................................................................................................77
Problems with object pinning ....................................................................................... 78
Summary ..................................................................................................................................78
Section 2: Troubleshooting ..............................................80
What's Coming Next ..................................................................... 81
Language .................................................................................................................................. 81
Best practices ..........................................................................................................................82
Symptom flowcharts ............................................................................................................. 84
Chapter 4: Common Memory Problems .......................................86
Types ........................................................................................................................................87
Value types ........................................................................................................................ 88
Reference types ................................................................................................................90
Memory Leaks.........................................................................................................................92
Disposing of unmanaged resources ..............................................................................93
Simple Value Types ............................................................................................................... 99
Overflow checking .........................................................................................................101
Strings .................................................................................................................................... 103
Intern pool .......................................................................................................................105
Concatenation ................................................................................................................107
Structs ....................................................................................................................................109