Understanding Generations and Operation Modes
The garbage collector is based on generations that are basically a counter representing how many times an object survived the garbage collection. The .NET Framework supports three generations. The first one is named gen0 and is when the object is at its pure state. The second generation is named gen1 and is when the object survived one garbage collection; the last generation is named gen2 and is when the object survived two or more garbage collections. This is a good mechanism for figuring the garbage collector’s performance because it first tries to remove objects at gen2 instead of searching for all live references. The garbage collection process is available in two modes: server and workstation. ...
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