How The Garbage Collector Can Cause Random Slowness

In this article, I am going to use a number of tools to show how, because .NET applications run on top of the CLR, things are not always as straight forward as they seem. I’m also going to prove to you that high CPU usage and slow performance in your applications are not always caused by slow code, but sometimes by poor or excessive memory use. The example that I will use is of an ASP.NET website