From 26f0b1783e0a33892b58a890c42742a76c922072 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Nickles <ryochan7@protonmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:50:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Use periodic garbage collection

Related to issue #866
---
 DS4Windows/Program.cs | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/DS4Windows/Program.cs b/DS4Windows/Program.cs
index 81dabe2..8f01d43 100644
--- a/DS4Windows/Program.cs
+++ b/DS4Windows/Program.cs
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ namespace DS4Windows
         public static ControlService rootHub;
         private static Thread testThread;
         private static Thread controlThread;
+        private static System.Threading.Timer collectTimer;
         private static Form ds4form;
 
         private static MemoryMappedFile ipcClassNameMMF = null; // MemoryMappedFile for inter-process communication used to hold className of DS4Form window
@@ -192,7 +193,10 @@ namespace DS4Windows
 
         private static void createControlService()
         {
-            controlThread = new Thread(() => { rootHub = new ControlService(); });
+            controlThread = new Thread(() => {
+                rootHub = new ControlService();
+                collectTimer = new System.Threading.Timer(GarbageTask, null, 30000, 30000);
+            });
             controlThread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Normal;
             controlThread.IsBackground = true;
             controlThread.Start();
@@ -200,6 +204,11 @@ namespace DS4Windows
                 Thread.SpinWait(500);
         }
 
+        private static void GarbageTask(object state)
+        {
+            GC.Collect(0, GCCollectionMode.Forced, false);
+        }
+
         private static void CreateTempWorkerThread()
         {
             testThread = new Thread(SingleAppComThread_DoWork);