Ensuring the call to GC in Java

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How to ensure whether or not the garbage collector is called in java when we are using System.gc() ?

Posted 5-Feb-14 22:14pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2014-02-05T23:15:00

See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#gc()[^]. However it is still the virtual machine's decision as to whether it runs immediately or queues the request. In general you should not be concerned about it.

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