GC and Performance

If there are 5 different .net applications running on a single machine,When the Garbage Collector wakes up how does it release the unused resources
1)Will there be 5 threads of GC running(1 for each application)?
2)Will there be just 1 thread of GC servicing all the 5 applications?
3)Irrespective of the above scenarios,wil there be performance issues with the 5 applications because of the GC

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Aldo John

  • Sep 5th, 2008
 

GC is a thread running in the .net CLR. There is only one thread for the entire runtime which manages any number of applications running....

GC.Collect() is just a request to the runtime to initiate a collection....

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muralikrishnareddy558

  • Nov 6th, 2008
 

CLR maintains a table content of what are the objects created, what are the tasks running.
CLR wont create threads itself. because threads concept have many disadvantages.
Based on that table only GC collects on Managed Heap objects.

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