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can we force Garbare collector

geetu sisodia
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Joined: Nov 26, 2006
Posts: 3
Please let me know if we can force garbage collector to disallocate memory of objects.
suji kumar
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Joined: Nov 08, 2006
Posts: 10
No, we cant force garbage collector to do deallocate memory,only we can request garbage collector to do so(using System.gc() ), but there is no guarantee tht garbage collector deallocates memory when request is passed to it.
Amod Mulay
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Joined: Apr 06, 2006
Posts: 33
I don't think you can force garbage collection.
you can do Runtime.getRuntime.gc()
or System.gc().
this will instruct the virtual machine to garbage collect but it is not necessary that JVM will do it immediately....

Cheers
Amod
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
 
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