.NET Garbage Collector - what is its thread priority?

Question

I have found some great articles (Maoni, Richter #1, Richter #2) giving many details as to the theory and practice of the GC, yet I cannot find anything that states how the

Answer 1

The GC thread runs at a normal priority. The finalizer thread runs at "Highest" priority.

You can see this by turning on the Debug "Thread" window, and breaking anywhere in a managed application. The threads are all listed (although they're not named), with their priorities. It takes a bit to decipher which is which, but there will be an extra "Normal" and "Highest" priority thread, which correspond to the GC and the Finalizer thread.