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RE: Garbage Collection

Posted by Kishori Sharan on August 09, 2000 at 2:40 PM

Hi
There are two functions to do garbage collection
System.gc()
Runtime.getRuntime().gc()
But you cannot force JVM to do the garbage collection at that time. You just give a hint to JVM for Garbage Collection calling gc() method . It all depends on JVM after gc() call.

Thanx
Kishori