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ozim ◴[12 Jul 25 08:15 UTC] No.44540249[source]▶

Question: does anyone run "Server GC" for the ASP.NET applications?

There is bunch of people copy pasting documentation to SO "explaining" server GC. I am running bunch of .NET stuff in VMs and never set "Server GC" and never ran into issues with default but also not sure if it is worth testing out.

I guess it does not matter much if you are running in containers but I am running on VMs in IIS.

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1. bob1029 ◴[12 Jul 25 08:43 UTC] No.44540389[source]▶

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Server GC is a tradeoff between latency and throughput. It makes a ton of sense for a web server where a small additional overhead of a few milliseconds on some responses won't matter.

Workstation GC is what you want when latency is critical. This is what you'd use if you were developing a UI or game engine.

I've seen workstation GC stay in the microsecond region when strategically executing GC.Collect at allocation batch boundaries.

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