Physical and Virtual Memory

Hello once again,

When working with objects, does .Net push any of it to virtual memory? I
know that the OS does it, I guess what I am asking is how do I claim a
portion of memory from the OS and work within that limitation?

If I were to claim 400 MB of RAM, using what, I don't know, possibly a byte
array, I would like to use that as my working limitation for data
operations. I realize that I would loose use of objects if I were to go
that route, but it seems to be the only way to limit how much memory the
application consumes while running. I also realize that .Net was geared
towards object base development, however, I cannot seem to find a reliable
way to measure my memory consumption.

There are times when I would have objects loaded in memory, and because I
would like to cache that data for possible later use, I don't release it.
When a flagged is raised that memory is nearing its limit, I would loop
through stale items and release them, and keep cutting down until I am back
in a safe margin.

Thanks in advance


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