I agree with you, but since the dalvik-vm does not 'see' the raw binary image data in Bitmaps, it may not kick of the garbage collector when process memory gets low. Calling System.gc() explicitly does work- around this problem and it seems to work, in my experience.
On Aug 10, 4:43 pm, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote: > I'll add that if you need to call System.gc to prevent an error then > there's a bug in the JVM. (Not saying that there's no bug and hence > no need to call it, just saying that, per the Java spec, the system > should automatically do a GC before raising any "hard" out-of-heap > error. The observations by the others above is presumably an > Androidism, not proper Java behavior.) > > On Aug 10, 3:28 pm, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Kumar Bibek <coomar....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think calling System.gc() doesn't immediately trigger the > > > garbage collection. So, relying on this all the time might not be a good > > > idea. > > >http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/System.htm...() > > > <http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/System.htm...()> > > "When control returns from the method call, the Java Virtual Machine has > > made a best effort to reclaim space from all discarded objects." > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
