I believe Java decides when to actually free the memory based on when it needs to, not when there's objects that can be freed. I used to have some good documentation on when Java's garbage collection runs. Does anyone have any good pointers to explanations on how Java's garbage collection runs?
-Scott On 10/1/07, Dominika Tkaczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scott Battaglia napisał(a): > > > Are you actually seeing out of memory exceptions or are you just worried > > that free memory goes low? If the memory goes low and then is garbage > > collected that is fine. > > > > Otherwise, I would see what those Hashmap entries are holding on to. My > > guess would be tickets. You could always shorten the ticket expiration > time > > and run the cleaner more frequently. > > Hi Scott, > sorry for the delay of my answer. > > So far, there were no memory exceptions. I am worried, because I thought > that garbage collector should clean the memory periodically, and not when > the free memory is very low. Maybe there is a way to tell it to do so? > > Anyway, I admit: maybe I am just being too careful with this. > > Regards, > Dominika > _______________________________________________ > Yale CAS mailing list > [email protected] > http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas > -- -Scott Battaglia LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbattaglia
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