🚀 go-pugleaf

Wowww, does this mean that a High Priority Thread is faster than a Low
Priority Thread?  William, I think you got proof there! ;-)


William Yu wrote in message <35AEA062.66F95FBA@Bigfoot.com>...
>F�bio Costa wrote:
>>
>> I need explicity code to garbage collector clear my objects from memory.
>
>Well, official you can use:
>
>  System.gc();
>
>Unfortunately, there is a design bug in JavaSoft's JVMs so the memory
>doesn't get freed to the OS. (Which in turn means the OS can't give this
>memory back to the JVM if required.)
>
>You can do a simple test to verify this. Write a loop that creates
>100,000 objects, frees the references, calls System.gc() and sleeps for
>a few seconds to allow gc() to work. If gc() worked as advertised, you
>would never get an out of memory error (the initial 100,000 objects must
>fit in available memory though).
>
>JavaSoft says they will fix this in starting at 1.2beta4 and perhaps
>backfix prior versions if they get a better handle on the whats and
>hows.