On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:02:58AM +0300, Costas Dokolas wrote: > Sorry to bother you personally. I've not seen messages about memory leaks > often, and I'm now wondering why they would appear with Java being > specifically designed against this possibility. Is it a JVM defect? Is there > a way to fool GC? Or is it simply a problem with collection contents > clean-up (i.e. there's data being stored in a list that gets stale and not > deleted)? Probably the third, I'd guess... :)
The correct term is 'space leak', which refers to a memory leak due to
a bug in the software that causes data to be held on to in
datastructures that we no longer need. The garbage collector doesn't
find it because there are legitimate references to it.
Scott
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