I have put together a quick and dirty debug diag script for troubleshooting .net memory leaks. (attached to this post) The reason I put it together was mainly to show how you can create your own debug diag scripts but feel free to use it to troubleshoot memory leaks, knowing that it does string parsing on the output so it is a bit prone to errors if sos changes output formats. NOTE: This script will only work on .NET 2.0 x86 memory dumps Mourad recently published a whitepaper on debug diag...

Yesterday I found this really nice Channel 9 interview with Maoni Stephens (Dev Owner of the CLR GC) and Andrew Pardoe (Program manager for the CLR GC) where they talked about the new Background GC in CLR 4.0. She also talks about it here and there is not much value in me repeating what she already says there but basically the main points of the video and the post are: Concurrent GC is being replaced by Background GC in CLR 4.0 Concurrent GC is the mode of the GC that you use in desktop...

Bret wrote a post about Managed Stack Explorer , a really nice tool that was developed in 2006 but since then seems to have been forgotten. It’s excellent if you want to troubleshoot hangs/performance issues in a process but don’t want to go through the hassle of getting and analyzing a dump.   What it will do is basically attach, snap the .net call stack and detach so you can see what all the .net threads are doing without using a debugger. What is even cooler is that you can copy/run...