As I remember, it slows down the whole program in a significant way. And, last but not least, the incremental garbage collector does not prevents memory fragmentation (compared to the normal garbage collector).
Tom At 10:43 05.04.2002 -0500, you wrote: >Jon Steelman wrote: >>This bothers me too, so this morning I'm trying -Xincgc (incremental >>garbage collection) in idea.bat for launching IDEA. Seems to startup >>fine. Hopefully incgc will prevent the problem and not introduce any >>other issues. >> >>Jon >P.S. If a number of us try this on a variety of operating systems and it >works without introducing undesirable side effects, then Intellij could >consider this for a default, but I'm not sure if all the IDEA supported >operating systems' JVMs support the -Xincgc option. > >Thanks, >Jon > > >>Mike Aizatsky wrote: >>> >>>Alex, >>> >>>As you might know, there's no way to control garbage collector from the >>>Java program at all. >>> >>>Best regards, >>>Mike Aizatsky. >>>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: >>>><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>[<mailto:eap-features>mailto:eap-features- >>>><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alex McColgan >>>>Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:02 AM >>>>To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>Subject: [Eap-features] Garbage Collection in Idea >>>> >>>>Request from a colleague: Is there any way to stop the (full) garbage >>>>collection process from occurring while you are in the middle of >>>>typing? It is very frustrating when you're typing along, and all of a >>>>suden everything freezes on you. You have to stop and hope what you >>>>have typed appears once the GC has finished, but as you notice the >>>>freeze, you almost i >>>>nvariably type an >>>> error so you can't just keep on >>>>typing and expect a whole paragraph of code to magically appear. >>> >>>Having >>>> >>>>the GC kick off when the keyboard has been inactive for a few seconds >>>>would be much more manageable. >>>> >>>>Alex >>> > _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
