Always force GC before taking snapshot

mihies

It would be nice to have a button (or an option) to force GC everytime a snapshot is taken.
I know I can click one and then the other button but it would be better to have a single click option.

Brian Donahue

Hi Miha,

Taking a snapshot does force a garbage collection when you are memory profiling with ANTS Profiler. The only objects that should survive a snapshot, in addition to the objects that are still referenced, are objects that are pending finalization.

mihies

Hi Brian,

Is this implicit GC same as the one that Force GC does?

Brian Donahue

Taking a snapshot does the same sort of garbage collection that the Force CG button does -- basically ANTS Profiler calls GC.Collect() before taking a snapshot.

mihies

Brian Donahue wrote:

Taking a snapshot does the same sort of garbage collection that the Force CG button does -- basically ANTS Profiler calls GC.Collect() before taking a snapshot.

OK that makes sense and it is what I was asking for.