garbage collection

Roberta Remenyi

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posted 23 years ago

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Does anyone know if you can activate JVM's garbage collector manually ( hard coded )?

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Amit Agarwal

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posted 23 years ago

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Hi Roberta,
We can just request the JVM to run the Garbage collection by calling System.gc(). But, whether or not the jvm runs the gc thread is upto the discretion of only the jvm. If you are low on resources most probably this will run. if you are not then i don't think that it should matter.
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Amit

Cindy Glass

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posted 23 years ago

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System.gc();
will SUGGEST that now would be a good time for it to run. That's the best that you can do.

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