Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1387#issuecomment-49540472
I've talked to many JVM developers (engineers who work on the JVM) and
while System.gc is advisory in the spec, it is actually a pretty reliable way
of triggering GC.
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