Question

I would like to detect which Garbage Collector is running at runtime in my mono service. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible:

public static bool IsRunningWithSGen ()
{
    return System.GC.MaxGeneration > 0;
}

and the alternative for Boehm:

public static bool IsRunningWithBoehm ()
{
    return System.GC.MaxGeneration == 0;
}