> I'm writing a server service which will process large amount of data. The
> internal data structure contains complex circular object references. I
> notice out-of-memory after the service runs for some time.
>
> When I use memory profiler tool to view the whole memory map, I find those
> circular referenced objects are not freed but the root reference where the
> objects are allocated has been set to null.
>
> Is .net garbage collector able to handle complex circular object reference
> correctly? Or I have to dereference all the circular references myself?