Garbage Collection every 100 seconds

Question

Did any one encountered a scenario where application under high memory allocation load performed second generation collection every 100 seconds ?

We using 64-bit server

Answer 1

If you are under high memory load, and using a lot of objects, then yes: GC will get busy... if it is hitting gen-2, then it sounds like you've got a lot of mid/long-life objects hanging around...

I'm assuming that memory usage is fairly stable? The above could indicate some kind of pseudo-leak (perhaps holding onto too many objects via static events, etc), or could just mean that you have a high memory usage!

How much memory are you using? Could you consider x64 and a ton of memory? Alternatively, would the 3gb switch (x86) buy you a few more bytes?