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Using GC Efficiently – Part 3

maoni December 19, 2004 Dec 19, 2004 12/19/04

In this article I’ll talk about pinning and weak references – stuff related to GC handles.   (I was planning on talking about finalization in this part of the “Using GC Efficiently” series but since I already covered it in pretty much detail in one of my previous blog entries I won’t repeat it here. Feel free to ask if you have ...

Tools that help diagnose managed memory related issues

maoni November 8, 2004 Nov 8, 2004 11/8/04

I was writing an internal wiki page on performance and thought this info is useful to many external readers as well so here it goes. vadump is a good start. It’s an mstools tool – meaning you can find it on your NT CD under bin\mstools. You can take a snapshot of the process and see if the GC heap is an issue or not. It was created a long ...

Clearing up some confusion over finalization and other areas in GC

maoni November 4, 2004 Nov 4, 2004 11/4/04

In the WinDev conference that I just went to, there seems to be some confusion over finalization (such as why it even exists and etc) and other areas. I hope the following will clear up that confusion. If not, let me know.   Finalization   1)      Why we have finalization   Finalization is necessary ...

Using GC Efficiently – Part 2

maoni September 25, 2004 Sep 25, 2004 09/25/04

In this article I’ll talk about different flavors of GC, the design goals behind each of them and how they work differently from each other so you can make a good decision of which flavor of GC you should choose for your applications.   Existing GC flavors in the runtime today   We have the following flavors of GC today:   1)&...

WinDev in Boston

maoni September 6, 2004 Sep 6, 2004 09/6/04

I am going to WinDev this year to give 2 performance talks. Check out: http://butrain.bu.edu/windev/track2.asp (it's from Oct 25 to 29) Below is the description: C5 - CLR PerformanceWrite faster managed code! Learn about performance engineering, tools and issues specific to managed code including: garbage collection (GC), managed code ...

Using GC Efficiently – Part 1

maoni June 15, 2004 Jun 15, 2004 06/15/04

So the goal here is to explain the cost of things so you can make good decisions in your managed memory usage – it’s not to explain GC itself - it’s to explain how to use it. I assume most of you are more interested in using a garbage collector than implementing one yourself.  It assumes basic understanding of GC. Jeff ...

Hello World

maoni June 4, 2004 Jun 4, 2004 06/4/04

Yep, now I have a blog too. I work on the CLR Performance Team so naturally I will be writing about performance. ...

GC Performance Counters

maoni June 3, 2004 Jun 3, 2004 06/3/04

There are many .NET Memory Performance Counters and this is meant to give you some guidelines in interpreting the counter data and how to correlate them. This assumes you have a basic understanding of GC.   First thing you may want to look at is “% Time in GC”. This is the percentage of the time spent in GC since the end of the last ...