Poll C# app's memory usage at runtime?

Question

I have an app that, while running, needs to poll its own memory usage. It would be ideal if it could list out the memory usage for each object instantiated. I know this ca

Answer 1

You could listen on perfmon counters, which will give you plenty of data (GC activity / physical memory usage / managed heap etc..)

If you need to go deeper you will probably have to attach a debugger to yourself, which is really super tricky cause you will have to spawn a new process and communicate with it, and walk through your memory.