Memory fragmentation is one of the primary causes of performance issues in .NET applications. When the object is instantiated, it occupies space in the memory, and when it is not needed, it is garbage collected, and that allocated memory block becomes available. This occurs when the object is allocated a larger space with respect to the size available in that memory segment/block and waits until space becomes available. Memory fragmentation is a problem that occurs when most of the memory is allocated in a larger number of non-contiguous blocks. When a larger size of object stores or occupies the larger memory block and the memory only contains smaller chunks of free blocks that are available, this causes fragmentation, and the system fails to allocate that object in memory.
.NET maintains two types of heap—namely the small object heap (SOH) and large...
