. Net – number of CLR and GC instances running on the machine?

I created 2 Net application and running on one machine – how many CLRs and GC will there be?

Also: I want to have some background information about how Windows Handles COM components and CLR I hope someone can explain in detail how to load CLR in memory and what it means if I list multiple CLR instances when running this command:

tasklist /m mscor*

Is it actually multiple CLRs or a single CLR as all Net process?

Solution

Each process will have its own copy of the CLR as a managed process However, since CLR is actually just some DLLs, windows will be able to share DLLs between processes For more information, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301727.aspx