Interacting with the Garbage Collector
The System.GC
class provides several methods for manually interacting with the garbage collector. In this chapter you already learned some of them. Remember Collect
that enables forcing a garbage collection; WaitForPendingFinalizers
enabling to wait for all Finalize
methods to be completed before cleaning up resources; ReRegisterForFinalize
that puts an object back to the finalization queue in object resurrection; and SuppressFinalize
that is used in the Dispose
pattern for avoiding unnecessary finalizations. There are other interesting members; for example, you can get an approximate amount of allocated memory as follows:
Dim bytes As Long = System.GC.GetTotalMemory(False)
You pass False
if you do not want ...
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