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Posted by Jeganathan S on November 09, 2000 at 4:25 AM

The garbage collector in Java is itself a Daemon thread which
gets invoked automatically whenever there is either a requirement
for objects 2 b garbage collected r no other thread uses the CPU
r if the CPU usage is very less.