*** **GC Pressure** (garbage collector pressure) is when the GC doesn’t keep up with memory deallocations. When the GC is pressured, it will spend more time garbage collecting, and these collections will come more frequently. **When your app spends more time garbage collecting, it spends less time executing code, thus directly hurting performance**. *** **References**: - [8 Techniques to Avoid GC Pressure and Improve Performance in C# .NET](https://michaelscodingspot.com/avoid-gc-pressure/)