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Garbage Collector

Posted by Heli on June 08, 2000 at 6:20 AM

> So we would like to unlod or have the properties garbage collected
> once we are done with them. Setting them to null doesn't seems
> to do the trick...we are using JDK 1.1.8 by the way.

Did you try to force executing the garbage collection by calling System.gc() (Runtime.getRuntime().gc)?

• Forcing garbage collection Joe May 31, 2001 at 6:08 PM (0)