Telling GC Lag from a Memory Leak in .NET — A Practical Procedure for Observing, Comparing, and Proving Memory Growth (archived 2026-09-01)

A procedure for determining whether growing memory in a .NET application is simply waiting on garbage collection or a genuine memory leak, using dotnet-counters, dotnet-gcdump, and dotnet-dump. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/2026/06/09/000-dotnet-gc-or-memory-leak/, as published on 2026-09-01. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-06-09.