*resolved* Garbage collection?

[MrPolite]

In my program, I'm declaring like 4 arrays that list all the system processes and I have that in a timer with an inteval of 1 second
well it turned out that the ram usage of the app was increasing with each call of the timer, so I'm doing a garbage collection with each call of the timer

2 questions: does it really slow down the app to call the grabage collector this much? and should I even bother to call it, or does it get called automatically?

[Slow_Learner]

ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/cpguide/html/cpconautomaticmemorymanagement.htm

The general sway of what I've read is leave garbage collection the hell alone and let it do its job

[Sascha]

yes, that's what they say, but there are plenty of situations when calling gc is absolutely neccesary. when you figure out that too much memory usage slowes down the system and automatic gc under that condition even more, there is not much else to do then calling gc prior to that yourself,

best regards

Sascha

[MrPolite]

thanks for the info....
I dont know if this will slow down the machine or not: the memory usage of my app increases about 400KB each second (without GC). But the thing is that it doesnt lock any resources, so I'm not sure what I should do? should I just leave it to GC even though it increases this fast? .....

[Sascha]

unfortunately there is only one way to find out: try both and see,

good luck

Sascha