How can I determine how much memory my program is currently occupying

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Related to my previous question:
Preventing Memory issues when handling large amounts of text

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Answer 1

You can try GC.GetTotalMemory:

Retrieves the number of bytes currently thought to be allocated. A parameter indicates whether this method can wait a short interval before returning, to allow the system to collect garbage and finalize objects.

The important thing to note is this part: "Retrieves the number of bytes currently thought to be allocated". This means that this method may not be 100% accurate - as long as you know this going in, you should be able to get a rough idea of your virtual memory utilization at a given point in your application execution.

Edit: Let me now offer a different solution that will probably be more productive: use perfmon and the CLR performance counters.