What is Scavenging?

In english, litteral meaning of scavenging is "to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material".

 

In ASP.Net, Scavenging is the process of deleting items from the cache when memory is scarce. ASP.NET uses the CacheItemPriority object to determine which items to scavenge first.

 

 

Scavenging is one way to remove data from the cache. There are other ways also available like Expiration and Dependency Changes.

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178597.aspx

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When we implement the Caching concept in the application,all the cached items will be stored in the memory.When executing the application if memory resources are low,then all the cached items stored in the memory get remove from the caching. this concept is called Scavenging 

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