Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:51:55 +0200 From: Kees Jan Koster <kjkoster@kjkoster.org> To: Nicklas Johnson <freebsd@spatula.net>, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: The aside (was: Crash when running 1.6.0_03) Message-ID: <D1040195-38EE-43DD-A2C0-5CE2DBBA8218@kjkoster.org> In-Reply-To: <be800d230808150756k55fcc019ga1713362db0a2d9a@mail.gmail.com> References: <83eb635f0808150545id908826r81346d5b62989570@mail.gmail.com> <be800d230808150756k55fcc019ga1713362db0a2d9a@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear Nicklas, > As an aside, it's a really, really bad idea to ever call System.gc() > directly in a modern JVM. It's much better to leave it to the JVM > to decide > when to do garbage collection. Interesting. Could you elaborate on this? What makes doing a manual gc() so bad? Any documents on the 'web that talk about this in detail? -- Kees Jan http://java-monitor.com/forum/ kjkoster@kjkoster.org 06-51838192 Rule 1 for being in a hole: stop digging.
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