Problem: GC Rooted in thread

Lycaon

First off, thanks to Red Gate for this app. It's just saved me so much headache I can't even begin to explain.

I've got a game server that's got a worker thread that processes incoming data, and after a client logs out, everything is cleaned up in .Dispose, but the profiler indicates that I still have the Client object GC rooted in the thread. A quick overview of the app:

Sub IncomingQueueThread()

    Do
        Dim p As PendingPacket = m_Incoming.Dequeue ' This is a blocking queue which inherits the .NET Queue class
        ' p is processed here
    Loop Until m_Exit

End Sub

Class Client

End Class

Structure PendingPacket
    Public Client As Client, Packet As Packet
End Structure

I understand this isn't exactly a subject specific to the profiler, but I was hoping perhaps someone felt helpful enough to explain why it's tied up in the worker thread.

Thanks in advance.

ShortAngry

Not sure what's going on here. Does it still stick around if you do a second garbage collection?