Finding out what the GC cleared the most?

[mlaban]

Hello,

I noticed that my app is allocating lots of small value types and that causes the garbage collector to run a bit more than I'd like it to.

Is there a way in the memory profiler to figure out what the collected objects were? I can only figure out what is still in memory.

My app is a game and I'm suspecting the allocations of all those value types during the update/render methods which are run at 60fps, so I can't really make snapshots before and after the methods...

Thanks!

[jrg]

You could use the snapshot API

http://www.red-gate.com/supportcenter/Content?p=ANTS%20Memory%20Profiler&c=ANTS_Memory_Profiler/help/7.0/amp_snapshot_api.htm

to take a snapshot before and after the function call.

The snapshots would have to be conditional so that they only ran once, to avoid attempting 60 snapshots per second.

[Brian Donahue]

I take it since you can't take snapshots, you need an alternate way of getting Garbage Collection stats? Maybe Windbg/sos can help?
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