How do I get .NET to garbage collect aggressively?

Question

I have an application that is used in image processing, and I find myself typically allocating arrays in the 4000x4000 ushort size, as well as the occasional float and the l

Answer 1

The best way to do it is like this article show, it is in spanish, but you sure understand the code. http://www.nerdcoder.com/c-net-forzar-liberacion-de-memoria-de-nuestras-aplicaciones/

Here the code in case link get brock

using System.Runtime.InteropServices; 
....
public class anyname
{ 
....

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetProcessWorkingSetSize", ExactSpelling = true, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, SetLastError = true)]

private static extern int SetProcessWorkingSetSize(IntPtr process, int minimumWorkingSetSize, int maximumWorkingSetSize);

public static void alzheimer()
{
GC.Collect();
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
SetProcessWorkingSetSize(System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().Handle, -1, -1);
} 

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you call alzheimer() to clean/release memory.